adONisApr 12, 2024

These mods on their power-trips really need to stop

https://programming.dev/post/12678361

These mods on their power-trips really need to stop - programming.dev

I just got banned from [email protected] [[email protected]], which seems to be the biggest Linux community out there. For context, it was about the recent Vaxerski incident, where I shared my personal opinion about the whole gender stuff. I wasn’t even trying to be hurtful against anyone, just shared my 2 cents in an already ongoing conversation. Sure, ine might not agree with my opinion, and I don’t agree with others, and this is totally normal. But at least we should be able to have sane and respectful conversations where no one is insulting each other, or anyone else… without having a mod intervening into the conversation So to all the mods out there: Your personal opinion does not give you the right to delete comments and block users, just because their opinions don’t align with yours!

Show threadmissingnoApr 12, 2024
Refusing to treat people with the barest minimum of respect is not a "personal opinion", it's behavior that no space should tolerate.
Show threadadONisApr 12, 2024

barest minimum of respect

what’s that even supposed to mean? If I talk to someone like I do with everyone else, without changing my tone/or opinion based on whatever race/religion/identity they go by, then I certainly am treating everyone with the same amount of respect.

We’ve lived for millennia now, and I don’t recall a single book where a person of the past was mentioned in addition with their pronoun, in the sense of “____ was a writer/artist/mathematician in the late 1800s who went by they/them”… etc.

We’re introducing unnecessary complications into an already complicated society we live in.

Show threadJaymesRSApr 12, 2024

What’s up with people changing their names after marriage or adoption too‽

Why does everyone refer to her as Marie Curie instead of Maria Skłodowska? It’s just soo unnecessarily complicated to have to use a different name than the one assigned at birth.

Show threadadONisApr 12, 2024
And yet no one is referring to Kim as Kim Kardashian West, but still Kim Kardashian.
Show threadJaymesRS

Because that’s how she’s told people she prefers to be called, that’s how she still brands her social media.

People respecting somebody else’s choice for how to refer to them is literally the example that is the worst for your argument.

Apr 12, 2024 at 4:40pmWeb