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: 2) by shortscreen on Monday October 29 2018, @06:57PM (2 children)
So you believe that the other side is equivalent to comic book villians, and you explain the fact that their rhetoric doesn't seem to rise to the level of comic book villians as being a ploy to attract more people to their true, secret, cause.
This reminds me of a certain other poster who says that the "progs" have a secret plan to transform the U.N. into a world government and enslave everyone.
Replace progs with nazis, U.N. with Trump (the enslavement part can stay the same). It's like deja-vu. Maybe you two are the same poster. Don't deny it now!
When hunting witches, always remember that "I'm not a witch!" is exactly what a witch would say.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @09:51PM
Who cares what they say, just toss em' in the lake and see if they float.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday October 30 2018, @04:46AM
Oh no, comic book villains tend to be grandiose and have a vision for the future that crosses moral boundaries easily
The "other side" is petty and cruel.