[UbuntuWomen] questionnable stuff on french ubuntu planet

[Melissa Draper]

t u wrote:
> Vid Ayer wrote:
>   
>> On 5/10/07, Matthias Urlichs <smurf at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> "Matthias". You're welcome anyway. ;-)
>>> Some people truly do not see the difference between those images and,
>>>       
> [...]
>   
>> While on the subject, it would be nice if there were some guidelines
>> on online social behaviour. 
>>     
> [...]
>
> Just wanted to repeat my previous proposition of amending a paragraph to
> the Code of Conduct regarding racism, sexism, heterosexism,
> ethnocentrism -any form of oppression- etc (probably under the "Be
> Respectful" item) and making the code enforceable...
> Thanks.
>
>   
This would not make a difference to the current situation at all. If you 
start going explicit, you need to be 100% explicit, or people will read 
between the words and go to town with symantics, rendering the intention 
of the "naughty" list useless.

Take the #ubuntu-offtopic !o4o factoid for example. If we pull someone 
up for disrespectful or potentially flammatory comments/topics, and it 
is not in the !o4o, they get irate that *something similar* was listed, 
but their explicit topic wasnt (and hence in their mind "ok"), and 
refuse to see that the topics listed are *examples* not the full list.


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Melissa Draper

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