I'd guess this was enforced by someone reading a corporate policy that said "if you see triple parentheses, it's hate speech, ban the account".
On further investigation (see reddit) there also seems to be a CSV file with artist names in the repo. Black artists have a string 'n' in some unspecified column. I can't check myself if this might mean something else, eg. if other ethnicities also have this string... but there are some suspicious things going on in a that repo for sure. More than just the parentheses.
It is not exclusively applied to any skin color either.
Later someone points out that there is another artist who paints mostly darker skin tones who also has the n identifier.
I can, immediately and without effort, see why this might be added. As a way to force representation in output. This is, to me, akin to paint which lets you pick a color (let's go with purple) for skin.
The Rimworld mod cited apparently comes with an "all white, all black, and all yellow" version. The only version mentioned by the angry folks is the white one.
Does anyone know the truth of the matter above?
Rimworld: It was whites only at first, black only got added later and then integrated.
Personally I would not call any of the actions racist. The first one can be a legitimate use case with an incredibly poor choice of identifier (or incredibly good in at least one scenario). The mod being updated kind of argues for itself.
I think I will see on the side of caution and call it ignorance instead of malice.
The scenario is one where the n is completely harmless and the purported(on Reddit) word was nowhere in the mind when being typed.
Seems like the kind of thing GitHub should reach out to people about before acting on. At least where there is any (even farfetched) possible explanation.
I don't know how you would validate this but it doesn't seem unreasonable.
The silver lining of this bullshit is that this again underscores how important critical thinking is.
What makes me sad is the amount of effort needed to figure out A) why could github have banned this account, B) knowing that, do I feel this is fair or an over-reaction
I planned to use this repo professionally, so getting to the bottom of this is important to me. Instead of clarity, there's outrage and selective reporting; I couldn't find anything conclusive so far.
If that is distasteful or harmful then so are Netflix adaptations.
As an example, there are plenty of racist things a black only mod enables.
Yellow only I would use if I still liked The Simpsons and played the game in question.
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...including removing any non-white characters from Rimworld
You should also mention there are two counterpart mods called "black only" and "yellow only"
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This reddit link posted elsewhere gives a more damning view, aside from the triple parentheses: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/103upr6/co...