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Re:Why GitHub Finally Abandoned Its Bossless Workplace by yuja_wang on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @09:26PM (#12440438)
I wonder if this is in response to out-of-control GitHub employees enforcing arbitrary "Codes of Conduct" on their users, including flagging repositories for using language that's not inclusive enough, or might offend someone?

Seems like without management, an employee with an agenda--especially on that's not related to technology--could go off unchecked for a long time.

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Re:Why GitHub Finally Abandoned Its Bossless Workplace by catwell on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:46AM (#12441700)
No, it's almost the opposite. This kind of thing started happening for the same core reason they added management: because of the Tom Preston-Werner / Julie Ann Horvath scandal two years ago.

It made them understand the importance (and risk for the business) of such issues, so added HR and middle-management with a focus on them. As a side effect we ended up with things like this happening.

The people with an agenda are not random employees in a flat company here, it's the management.

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Re:Why GitHub Finally Abandoned Its Bossless Workplace by kornish on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @09:30PM (#12440454)
Seems unlikely that an organization of GitHub's size would overhaul the entire management structure to deal with problems brought about by a single employee (or even a few).
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Re:Why GitHub Finally Abandoned Its Bossless Workplace by nommm-nommm on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @09:27PM (#12440443)
Can you elaborate?
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Re:Why GitHub Finally Abandoned Its Bossless Workplace by brobinson on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @10:41PM (#12440679)
I think this might be a reference to the "WebM for Retards" repo which was banned. After that event, someone ran a search and found myriad other repos containing "problematic" language which were ignored.
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Re:Why GitHub Finally Abandoned Its Bossless Workplace by SamReidHughes on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @12:33AM (#12440989)
Not just that repo -- see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12232250
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Re:Why GitHub Finally Abandoned Its Bossless Workplace by brobinson on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @08:37PM (#12449289)
I'm honestly so jaded by the injection of language policing into everything that all I can do is sigh nowadays.
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