RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116127306722990113
Imagine: a FreeBSD developer breaking all six ground rules of the FreeBSD Community Code of Conduct and imagining that their abuse will have no consequences.
Imagine: the same person later imagining that they're qualified to provide an uninvited lecture about conduct.
Normally, I'm discreet about such things.
Unfortunately, some people don't know when to be quiet. Imagine that person.
sh | shh
Drafted in March, following an offence by a FreeBSD developer in February:
<https://github.com/grahamperrin/freebsd-doc/pull/8>
From the commit log message:
"I should have done this on 24th February 2026."
My changes to pkgbase documentation in the FreeBSD wiki prior to 19th August 2025:
<https://wiki.freebsd.org/action/info/PkgBase?action=info>
The more recent page (fourth edition, outdated):
<https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgbase>
I should have removed myself from the wiki following the rude email that I received, from a FreeBSD developer, in August 2025. That's when my contributions to the wiki ceased. Pictured: completion of an overdue task – today, I removed myself from the wiki 🎉
On a happier note: <https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116185826154992103> – Isaac Freund, who has never been rude to me, plans to "Clean up the pkgbase wiki page and remove outdated information.".
@pauamma thank you.
For clarity: I have no criticism of the current Code of Conduct, and I never reported the offender's 2024 misconduct to the FreeBSD Core Team. From my perspective: the time of Team members can be spent more wisely.
I have no criticism of the Core Team.
I simply wondered whether the offender would ever think of apologising. There's a broader history of rudeness from this particular offender and I am not the sole recipient.
Yesterday, for example: I mentioned "the chunk of lies and more that was, thankfully, automatically removed by Reddit's abuse and harassment filter".
Ten hours later: we have an improper attempt to change my Reddit password. This is extraordinary. The request (pictured) was not made by me, I should reasonably assume that it's a malicious attempt to cause trouble.
Now my Bugzilla account has been disabled for "Repeated abusive behavior towards project maintainers." Perhaps the time has come to publicise more details of:
― the repeated abusive behaviour from FreeBSD developers towards me.
In any case, it's easy enough for me to continue supporting users of FreeBSD whilst being unfairly obstructed by people within the Project who are either unable, or unwilling, to see the big picture.
<https://redd.it/1tdo4bj> for example. For less jumping through hoops around badly formatted text.
Cc @pauamma
@pauamma re: <https://mstdn.social/@pauamma/116576323287735316> and two-factor authentication
In 2022, someone repeatedly published allegations about my account activity.
This was horribly stressful. I imagined that my account had been hacked. In a panic, I enabled 2FA.
Eventually it transpired that the allegations were entirely false – from someone who had been malicious towards me in the past. A person who sometimes pretends to not use Reddit, yet I see around eighteen different Reddit IDs for this one personality (all in the same location, and so on).
After he was proved wrong: the liar never apologised for any of the trouble that he had caused.
In my heart: I want to ban all eighteen IDs from the FreeBSD subreddit. My sense of fairness caused me to block only one of the eighteen.
Graham Perrin
Pau Amma