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Re:Vim 9 will be dedicated to Sven Guckes by ruhrharry on Monday February 21, 2022 @01:01PM (#30418660)
He was well known as an open source evangelist and as a helpful guy.

But he was also known as "sexual predator" who harassed young, underaged girls, see https://twitter.com/twena/status/1495537875651371012

I don't know if it is appropriate to make a dedication to someone like this.

Re:Vim 9 will be dedicated to Sven Guckes by Semaphor on Monday February 21, 2022 @01:05PM (#30418720)
The source is some random person on Twitter saying he is? Really?
Re:Vim 9 will be dedicated to Sven Guckes by ruhrharry on Monday February 21, 2022 @01:21PM (#30418934)
There are more, see comment of sneak. A lot of people knew, that he was a "problematic" guy. He was kicked out of a hackerspace in Berlin after he harassed a young girl. The fact that she is still affected by this incident after 10 years shows that this wasn't a minor issue.
Re:Vim 9 will be dedicated to Sven Guckes by Semaphor on Monday February 21, 2022 @09:28PM (#30423406)
Yeah, I saw sneak’s comment afterwards. Despite that being only 2 more people, that was still a far more believable source than this random link.
Re:Vim 9 will be dedicated to Sven Guckes by gotsa on Monday February 21, 2022 @01:21PM (#30418931)
Do you knew him?

How is it possible that you catalog a person as a "sexual predator" without any proof?

Re:Vim 9 will be dedicated to Sven Guckes by ruhrharry on Monday February 21, 2022 @01:27PM (#30419001)
I didn't catalig anyone. Do you know that the quote sign (") stands for quotes?
Re:Vim 9 will be dedicated to Sven Guckes by gotsa on Monday February 21, 2022 @01:34PM (#30419064)
> I don't know if it is appropriate to make a dedication to someone like this.

Sure, the quotes, how could I have been so oblivious... Then, what do you mean with "someone like this"? Why would it be inappropriate to make a dedication?

Re:Vim 9 will be dedicated to Sven Guckes by freedomben on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:34PM (#30421611)
"I was just quoting someone else" is the classic cause for how misinformation/disinformation spreads on the internet.

I'm not saying you're wrong about him, I have no idea. But you're clearly amplifying and spreading the accusation. You have some responsibility to find out if it's true before doing so. Now that said, I don't want to let everyone else on here off the hook by blaming you. They also have a responsibility to take your statement with a grain of salt too. But we can only control our own behavior.

I'm not taking a position on whether we have free will or not. In fact I'm somewhat convinced that we don't ;-)