I very much agree that profanity should not be used around Wikimedia, but there's a large gap between "things we ideally wouldn't have", "things an employee of a Wikimedia institution should be fired for", and "things a volunteer contributor should be blocked for" (in that order). (The acronym "wtf" has been used 532 times on Phabricator according to search results (including some by the relevant CoCC members), and 10 times fully spelled out.)
Just to remind everyone of some background, the CoC came into existence after having a policy tag edit-warred onto it after a non-consensus-backed discussion regarding a particular section was self-closed as consensus reached for the entire document, attempting to establish an unaccountable and secretive Committee that may ban users for any of a number of extremely vaguely worded violations including "attempting to circumvent a decision of the Committee", appoints its own members (none of which were community-selected), can veto any changes to the CoC, and recently claimed absolute authority over all development-oriented spaces on all Wikimedia projects (including VPT, gadget/script/module talk pages) on a "consensus" of a single user. It's quite clearly a completely illegitimate institution.
But leaving all that aside, this was a terrible decision. I recommend an immediate unblock.
-- Yair Rand
2018-08-08 13:02 GMT-04:00 David Cuenca Tudela dacuetu@gmail.com:
In general I would prefer to keep vulgar language out of the projects, as it doesn't bring anything positive. Research shows that swearing causes stress [1], and there are many ways of showing dissatisfaction without using coarse language.
For instance, I would appreciate if there would be more interest in using Nonviolent Communication, as it is more effective in getting the message across than with negativity. Introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-129JLTjkQ
Regards, Micru
[1] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/ journal.pone.0022341
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 5:53 PM Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
That's what I called a very first world problem. This happens when American culture and behavioral standard is extended to an international community. It is not rally polite to write that F-thing (how many times has it been written directly or abbreviated or indirectly in this very discussion?). But to ban a member of the technical community from the working
environment
is really harmful. Although we do block people from editing Wikipedia, too, but we do it publicly, clearly, comparably, and by the rules of the local community,
not
by hidden rules of admin board. And not for one ugly word. This secret banning undermines the community, and therefore it is destructive.
Additionally, as code of conduxt itself was discussed here, the coc file case was discussed here a few weeks ago, and this is the place where most Phabricatos users communicate, this is a good place to discuss this
case,
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