What do you think will happen when you ban everyone competent? You don't want to be the Boeing of FOSS

There's more than enough competent people who aren't asocial edgelords. Most people are happy letting other people live their lives and will in fact shit on people who don't allow others to do the same.

That's not hall monitoring, that's what the both of us think we're doing. Difference is one of us is shitting on people who would exclude others based on their identity, and the other is shitting on people who would shit on people who would shit on people based on their identity. You're not against shitting on people, you just want to be allowed to shit on other people without consequence. That's not how the world works. Talk shit, you get shown the door.

The reference to asociality and anti-sociality is rather ironic in the context of abuse of power and specifically going out of one’s way, as a paid employee, to harm someone working on OSS projects full-time for free.

Not really.

Want to reply to actual content or are you enjoying your nitpicking?

Since when pointing out the elephant in the room is "nitpicking"?

Since stripping the nitpicky word out detracts from the comment a negligible amount, since always. It's obnoxious word and tone policing that doesn't say anything.

To edgelords, any enforcement of CoC is abuse of power.

Please tell me more about how codes of conduct shouldn’t be a thing, 26 day old account with only flagged comments.

"You've been censored, why do you think censorship is bad?"

No, I'm happy to let people who I disagree with contribute to whatever code they want. You are not. Hence you are a hall monitor and I am not.

And you are happy to let scores of talented people walk by and drift away because you fail to understand that well-kept gardens die by pacifism.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tscc3e5eujrsEeFN4/well-kept-...

You're right that you're not a hall monitor though. You're worse, actually, because you are actually committing a good deal of the harassment of real people yourself. You have in these very comments. You're bullying people away and pretending that this is better than preventing someone from entering their own well-kept garden.

Yes, bullying people that want to censor others is good. As long as I'm not preventing them from contributing, there's nothing wrong with calling them and their views stupid. If they decide to contribute to a project I'm involved in they may, I do not care who they are. That's what's important

You (attempted to) tell a trans woman that they weren't a real woman. That's not anything to do with censorship or anything "noble," that's just transphobia and you're just a bully. Fuck off, dude.

I am not a trans woman. midnight2 ASS-umed my gender identity based on my stance on this issue.

They are still a transphobe though.

That's what I was attempting to get at with my (attempted to) but I def could have phrased that better.

Yes I am proudly transphobic. Oh no your declaration of heresy had no effect!

Me too. Or rather, I'm proudly in favour of supporting women and girls who need single-sex female-only spaces, proudly in objection to harmful "gender-affirming" cosmetic treatments for children, and stand proudly against the enforced and controlled speech that gender believers wish to impose upon all of society. If that makes me a "transphobe" then so be it.

My advice? Continue crying about it

A 'trans woman' is a type of man though. All of them are male, by definition.

Only if you have nonsensical and sexist beliefs like 'a woman is anyone who says they are a woman' or 'a woman is anyone who performs femininity' or 'a woman is anyone feminine enough for me to be sexually attracted to them' would you think that these men are women.

The rest of us live in the real world where we understand women to be female and men to be male.

Wild accusations of transphobia are losing their impact, these days it means more to the accuser than the accused. It's like a Christian calling an atheist 'heretic'. No big deal really.

We don't have to tolerate assholes even if they're really, really good.

But uhhh... Lyude, Alyssa Rosenzweig, Xe Iaso, Gankra, Ariadne Conill, Sage Sharp... There are an absurd number of highly competent trans developers who have made profoundly significant contributions to the open source ecosystem and justly ascended to leadership positions because of it. Right-wing edgelords? Not so much. In fact without trans people you wouldn't have a computer to type your right-wing screeds on: Lynn Conway invented VLSI and Sophie Wilson co-developed the ARM architecture. So yes, ban the fascist edgelords. Nothing of value will be lost.

Hacker culture is queer, furry, neurodiverse. Deal with it.