When should behaviour outside a community have consequences inside it?

Re:When should behaviour outside a community have consequenc... by calcifer on Thursday December 21, 2017 @07:29AM (#15978326)

I'll bite. Let's say I'm in charge of a FOSS project to which you and I are both contributing to. If I find out you are posting white nationalist propaganda on Twitter, I'll kick you out of the project, simply because I don't like white nationalists and don't want the project to appear welcoming to them.

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Re:When should behaviour outside a community have consequenc... by gwright on Thursday December 21, 2017 @09:51AM (#15979060)

Your example is too easy.

What if you find out that the other other person supports strong enforcement of existing immigration laws? What if supporters of that policy are being labeled as a "white nationalists" by others? Is that really evidence of "white nationalism"? What if that person simultaneously supports significant changes to the immigration laws that would result in more legal immigration?

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Re:When should behaviour outside a community have consequenc... by calcifer on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:03PM (#15981161)

In those cases, I would still ask myself the same questions. Namely, am I fine with being associated with a person with these views? and am I fine with them being associated to my project?

If the answer is no, I would kick them out just the same and that's ok.

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Re:When should behaviour outside a community have consequenc... by jhasse on Thursday December 21, 2017 @08:58AM (#15978745)

I guess kicking out one of the top contributors would hurt your FOSS project more than the indirect connection to white nationalists. And if it helps against white nationalists, I think that's debatable.

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Re:When should behaviour outside a community have consequenc... by commenter1 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @07:45AM (#15978385)

You probably wouldn't hire ex-cons either, because, you know, you don't want to appear welcoming criminals.

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Re:When should behaviour outside a community have consequenc... by calcifer on Thursday December 21, 2017 @09:24AM (#15978896)

I believe in rehabilitation, so I would most definitely hire ex-cons trying to go straight.

People who are actively sharing white supremacist screed are not nearly in the same category.

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Re:When should behaviour outside a community have consequenc... by Deestan on Thursday December 21, 2017 @08:19AM (#15978531)

That is a strained corollary.

Ex-cons have a shitty past. White supremacists are currently and actively shitty.

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