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code-of-merit
HISTORICAL RECORD2016–2018
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code-of-merit

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Observed mentions: 2016-01-24 23:22:42 UTC to 2018-09-26 10:05:46 UTC.

0122016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2018

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

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Rust draws on Coraline Ada's Code of Conduct ("Contributor Covenant") which was straight-up designed to force politics on people. She's aggressively pushed it in as many places as possible so they can ban people later for essentially saying what people like her disagree with in any forum (not just project itself). Here's one mob attack over a Twitter comment that didn't work featuring her with appearance of a Rust team member appearing to throw in some support. At one point, the political attackers set the maintainer up to look like he or she supports pedophiles. Dirty, dirty tactics pushing politics that don't even necessarily represent the beliefs of those they claim to protect. People in minority groups have a wide range of beliefs with many contradicting what these "social-justice warriors" act like they believe. They'll censor them,
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too, if deemed necessary. https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 I don't follow the Rust conversations enough to tell you anything about what goes on there. That they adopt and enforce a Code of Conduct designed for censorship of non-believers in that cause with a few, strong supporters on the team is enough to worry anti-censorship people. Regardless of Rust project or somewhere else, we opponents block it on grounds of fighting forced compliance with political views with no consensus. Fighting political domination on forums that are supposed to be about tech. That its author has hit many places from Opal to Github means we prefer to block her CoC even more. Rather have a Code of Merit with clauses for keeping things civil. Minimal to no politics: just project-focused code, docs, and support of people in project-related conversations. That's it. https://github.com/rosarior/Code-of-Merit/blob/master/CODE_O...
In Increasing Rust’s Reach
Thanks, that's why I shared it on here. I suspected that its rational approach may not receive a warm reception since so much of today's dialogue about this topic is driven by emotions. Glad that I was wrong. I find it alarming that this toxic culture is invading the tech field. Because of its nature, coding is, has been and will continue to be the best environment for meritocracy to flourish and be rewarded. If you are a good programmer and can deliver, no one really cares if you're young, old, black, white, purple, man, woman, etc. They will want to hire you and/or work with you. Squashing that for a superficially forced diversity "solution" is both short sighted and wrong. Discriminating against any category of people, no matter on what personal basis you decide to create that category is short sighted and wrong. Or should I say 'probl
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ematic'? ;) To leave things on a positive note, this is the sort of thing I'm talking about: https://github.com/rosarior/Code-of-Merit
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