On Discourse rules about politics
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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
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      1 hour 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
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        13 minutes 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.