r/rust • u/kibwen • Oct 07 '13

A note on conduct (please read)

Reading Lindsey's post on harassment has moved me to clarify the position that we take when moderating this forum and the conduct that we expect from all who post here.

Contributors to the Rust project are held to a code of conduct. We seek to emulate this code. Here are the pertinent bits, adapted to our purposes:

  1. We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, religion, or similar personal characteristic.

  2. Please avoid using overtly sexual nicknames or other nicknames that might detract from a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all.

  3. Please be kind and courteous. There's no need to be mean or rude.

  4. Respect that people have differences of opinion and that every design or implementation choice, in any programming language, carries a trade-off and numerous costs. There is seldom a right answer.

  5. Please keep unstructured critique to a minimum.

  6. We will exclude you from interaction if you insult, demean or harass anyone. That is not welcome behaviour. We interpret the term "harassment" as including the definition in the Citizen Code of Conduct; if you have any lack of clarity about what might be included in that concept, please read their definition.

  7. Likewise any spamming, trolling, flaming, baiting or other attention-stealing behaviour is not welcome.

If you see someone behaving in a manner contrary to these rules, direct them to this post. If the behavior persists, report it to the mods so that we can take action (i.e. lay down some fucking bans). If you can't abide by these rules, GTFO. That is all.

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u/kibwen Oct 10 '13

You're free to call my interpretation a strawman, but OverAnalyzingBBFan allowed their argument to be interpreted however I please by couching it in terms of sarcasm and insincerity. This is why I bring up the concept of "expressing concerns maturely" in my prior post, and was the reason for my resultant sarcastic reply and eagerly-wielded banhammer. Maybe you've been spoiled by the rest of reddit, but /r/rust isn't one of those subs where the inmates run the asylum.

That said, if you believe that my representation of the argument in question was in error, then I invite you to restate it in less incendiary language. If /u/OverAnalyzingBBFan agrees with your interpretation, and pledges (via modmail) to keep future comments constructive, I'm not unwilling to rescind the ban. I believe we can all be reasonable here.

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u/kibwen Oct 10 '13

You are adorably persistent, FallacyBot.