Doesn't HN also have community guidelines and sometimes bans accounts that violate them? What's the difference?
Re:Introducing GitHub Community Guidelines
by flukus on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @11:12PM
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HN is a forum and doesn't host anything I would care about losing, github is (was) a service I paid for. We discuss some contentious subjects on HN but github will be preventing contributions from people with wrongthink, which I don't care about.
You seem to be making some big assumptions about how these guidelines will be enforced. I got a very different sense from reading them.
I see no evidence they will delete your paid accounts because you think or express ideas that are merely contentious or unpopular.
Re:Introducing GitHub Community Guidelines
by flukus on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @11:40PM
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Because I've seen it used in practice to vilify people with different beliefs, even when those beliefs are irrelevant to the work on the project.
Github and some recent hires they've made have a history of this.
Re:Introducing GitHub Community Guidelines
by AvenueIngres on Thursday October 20, 2016 @03:04AM
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>You seem to be making some big assumptions about how these guidelines will be enforced.
Oh please. We all know what kind of rancid and toxic people are spearheading these kinds of seemingly innocuous initiatives.
>I see no evidence they will delete your paid accounts because you think or express ideas that are merely contentious or unpopular.
Yeah. Because I am going to take the risk and potentially disrupt the workflow of three high-volume OSS projects I maintain. The time I assumed benevolence from Github is long over. Time to move my shit to a reliable service like Gitlab.
I anticipate that my account could be removed because of the actions of another contributor on a project, even if I had no involvement.
And a simply don't like the idea of it. They are selling a product, I want to buy the product, I don't want to be forced into their political philosophy for it.