Behavioral standards in the free software community

Behavioral standards in the free software community

Posted Jun 8, 2006 16:17 UTC (Thu) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458)
In reply to: Behavioral standards in the free software community by wilck
Parent article: Behavioral standards in the free software community

Oh, right.

That's a pretty hard issue. I've seen a lot of witty, subtle and ironic responses to messages from people who are obviously struggling with their english. The result is generally that the true intent of the response is completetly misunderstood.

But on the other hand a code of conduct that says "don't try to be funny" won't really help in building a community.

A related issue is that a lot of the time, attacks are disguised as irony. On mailing lists you'll see all kinds of 'Ha ha, just seriously' statements.

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