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GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
Lest you think this is yet another CoC, the guidelines assure you that they are not a CoC.
Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
The GNU Kind Communication Guidelines, initial version, have been published in https://gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html. On behalf of the GNU Project, I ask all GNU contributors to make their best efforts to follow these guidelines in GNU Project discuaaions[sic].
[ . . . ] The difference between kind communication guidelines and a code of conduct is a matter of the basic overall approach.
A code of conduct states rules, with punishments for anyone that violates them.
[...] The idea of the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines is to start guiding people towards kinder communication at a point well before one would even think of saying, "You are breaking the rules." The way we do this, rather than ordering people to be kind or else, is try to help people learn to make their communication more kind.
[ . . . . ] I disagree with making "diversity" a goal. If the developers in a specific free software project do not include demographic D, I don't think that the lack of them as a problem that requires action
The best way to avoid conflict and encourage diversity is to force everyone to voluntarily think alike.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @03:00PM (12 children)
You ought to introspect about why my comments hurt you so badly.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by ikanreed on Monday October 29 2018, @03:28PM (7 children)
Because you're a pretentious moron who thinks they can speak for me, because you never think about things at all?
Yeah, I think that's it.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @03:31PM (6 children)
Not "they".
(Score: 5, Touché) by ikanreed on Monday October 29 2018, @03:52PM (5 children)
Yeah, that's a real stretch to guess that one right there. Who ever could've guessed.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @04:08PM (4 children)
The only special forms are the feminine forms; everything else in English is gender-neutral, and is only "masculine" in the sense that it is "not feminine".
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by ikanreed on Monday October 29 2018, @05:14PM
And now we're back to absolutely brainless opinions stated as objective fact. Oh well. It was a nice diversion.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @05:55PM (2 children)
Do you even grammar bro?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @06:21PM (1 child)
All of the problems disappear under this interpretation of English; everything makes sense, and requires very little change.
Furthermore, this is the quintessential human experience:
He and she did it in front of them.
The pronouns are perfectly chosen for one human to convey to another human almost all important information. Nothing else works well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @07:09PM
They did it in front of them.
My my someone caught the short bus this morning.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @04:16PM (3 children)
You seem to be trying really hard to incite others to feel and act like you. Sorry, Charlie, but we're not taking the bait.
If you need to be told to treat others with common courtesy and respect, then you have already failed as a human being. No guidelines or code of conduct is ever going to reach you (let alone help you).
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Monday October 29 2018, @06:14PM (1 child)
Considering that you and the other respondent in this thread immediately resorted to profanity, name calling, and insults, I'd say that any bait has already been devoured.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @09:54PM
Challenging bad behavoir and/or calling it out is an unfortunate necessity. Passively letting it continue is the same as encouraging and approving it. If you don't stand up to those who wish to be abusive then they are emboldened. You may be OK with that but I am not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @08:50PM
Everyone needs to be told to treat others with common courtesy and respect. Ok ok, maybe 1% of the population is going to figure it out for themselves, or just naturally do so, but the rest need to be TOLD.
Usually this is done by parents, but not everyone is so lucky to have decent parents or even ones that wanted to keep them. People can learn, people do change.