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Recently, our moderators made the decision to remove the word “queer” from a user’s introduction post here on Discourse. In the moderator discussion with this user, the moderators also advised the user to remove a trans pride flag from their profile pic. This was a mistake and we apologize for that. We have updated our posting guidelines and CoC enforcement processes to better reflect our diversity policy. Ubuntu’s diversity policy is meant to ensure individuals can be honest about their identi...

Was surprised no one bothered to post this give how big of a reaction this story got.

Wanted to post the update and correction cause that deserves to be seen just as much. This seems like a reasonable, thoughtful handling of the issue.

I still don’t really wanna use Ubuntu though 😅

  • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
    21·
    11 hours ago

    And what better way to normalize diversity in this context than ignore everything but the code you submit ? We are talking about code, not personal issues.

    I mean, I don’t care that the bus driver who take me to the office this morning is gay/trans/whatever, why I should care about this for the person that send me a code contribution ? Being queer make the code inherently better ? Or bad code should be accepted because a queer person send it ?

    As I see it, you send good code it is merged, you send bad code it is refused and, most importantly, it was explained why the code is not good enough to be accepted. Nowhere in this flow knowing that you are a queer has any importance.

      • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
        21·
        7 hours ago

        No, that’s treating you as a normal person irregardless of the private aspects of your life. You are free to disclose them and I am free to ignore them since in this context I don’t care, and I don’t see why I should care, about them.

        Else explain to me how being a queer/gay/trans/whatever impact on the submitted code or contribution.

        • Tenderizer78@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          The impact on submitting code is entirely besides the point.

          It’s not normalizing it if nobody knows. That’s just a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

          • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
            21·
            4 hours ago

            Why in this context I need to know that ? And why in this context I would like to ask about this ? How it is pertinent ?

            My point is simply that there are situations where these kind of information are not needed nor usefull. I am not saying that this is valid everywhere and every time but that there are places where knowing that the person you are talking to is a queer is important, situation where it is not important and situation where merely asking for that information is dangerous.
            In my view, on the Ubuntu’s discourse this is an information that is not relevant nor usefull to know.

            Do you want to consider it as a “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy ? Fine, I just try to treat people like they deserve in any case and to do this I don’t need to know these informations, a queer is a normal person to me when it comes to interact with him/her/whatever.