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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday June 07 2017, @09:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the be-nice-or-I'm-gonna-cry dept.

El Reg has an interesting read on an OSS developers survey:

Most of the negative behaviour is explained as "rudeness", which has been experienced witnessed by 45 per cent of participants and experienced by 16 per cent. GitHub's summary of the survey says really nasty stuff like "sexual advances, stalking, or doxxing are each encountered by less than five per cent of respondents and experienced by less than two per cent (but cumulatively witnessed by 14%, and experienced by three per cent)." Twenty five per cent of women respondents reported experiencing "language or content that makes them feel unwelcome", compared to 15 per cent of men.

This stuff has consequences: 21 per cent of those who see negative behaviour bail from projects they were working on.

Now I take an entirely different conclusion than El Reg on this. To me this says that two or three percent of respondents have valid reason to bitch about bad behavior but a further eighteen or nineteen percent above that simply are not capable of working with other people. Come on, who here has never held a job where someone on staff was a dickhead/bitch but you kept on working anyway? Me, I've not once held a job where there were zero personality conflicts. In my less than humble opinion, part of being an adult is being able to deal professionally or at least civilly with other human beings who do not cater to your every sensitivity.

Maybe I'm just a relic of the past though. Maybe the future really is a bunch of snowflakes crying to $boss to get you fired if you say or do anything they dislike.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @02:27AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @02:27AM (#522397)

    You, on the other hand, embrace the alt-left's fascist views, where every word a person utters in his life should be punished, unless those words advance the alt-left agenda.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @05:47AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @05:47AM (#522459)

    I won't argue the censorship standpoint, I'm not a fan of such moderation. Freedom of speech is important, but it must be balanced by the rule of law. The community moderation system seems to be doing OK, I haven't seen much weird moderation stuff recently but that could just be someone scaling back their botnet. So if it is up to the community then the people who care about this site should be helping create a good atmosphere for discussions. Having a vocal admin spew trollish crap on every story, proclaim he's the smartest person around and just ruin discussions with trolling remarks is a bad way to go about making the site successful.

    Oh, you can say whatever you want? You speak your mind? Well, as evidenced by the amount of people vocally speaking up about it your behavior is ruining the site. People don't want to engage when they'll just be crapped on by narrow minded dogma which half the time is just being used to get a rise out of people. Go troll some other site which doesn't try and pride itself on high quality discussions. PS: this comment isn't for just one user.

    Oh, and I went and found a slashdot political story, even the disagreements seem to be way more civil over there.
    https://politics.slashdot.org/story/17/06/07/2054214/the-public-is-growing-tired-of-trumps-tweets-says-voter-survey [slashdot.org]
    https://politics.slashdot.org/story/17/06/07/1635222/edward-snowden-on-trump-administrations-recent-arrest-of-an-alleged-journalistic-source [slashdot.org]

    So why stick around here? I like the no censorship ethos, but 100% anarchy isn't working so well. Between the openly racist trolling, the serious conservative brigading, the posting of FB level citations / bad articles, and an admin that prides himself on lack of sympathy and insulting others.... Yeah, SN has problems. I've tried to stick around for the ideologically admirable stance you guys took, but obviously slashdot is not some vastly censored forum and with a larger population they get better discussions overall. The moderation system seems to work for them and I'm not worried about discussions suffering from real censorship, but they will benefit from the removal of racist trolls baiting reactions out of people.

    Ya ya good riddance you say, maybe you'll get enough new users to keep things going before it turns into a big echo chamber in here. I've noticed a trend of active users disappearing, with some of the long term accounts petering out as well.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @03:08PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @03:08PM (#522609)

      It sounds like you just don't like hearing certain things, and want people to keep quiet rather than cause some kind of cognitive dissonance in you. Maybe you ought to review your own internal issues.