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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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