Poettering: The Biggest Myths [LWN.net]

Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Posted Jan 28, 2013 9:25 UTC (Mon) by russell (subscriber, #10458)
In reply to: Poettering: The Biggest Myths by nirbheek
Parent article: Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Comments on slashdot would be off topic, trying to be funny, or just plain juvenile. I don't see this as being any of those.

Passionate sure; on topic yes. Free software is full of passionate people. Passion drives debate and causes people to make things better. Lennart is passionate about systemd and pulse audio, just read his posts. And good on him. Not everyone is going to agree, and that's fine. Trying to shut down dissenting opinions by talking about political correctness is OFF TOPIC.

If there is one thing that characterizes the people on LWN, it's that they are political correctness Nazis. Oops I mentions the Nazis, my bad. But I'm sick of the conversation being one sided in controversial topics.

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Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Posted Jan 28, 2013 17:14 UTC (Mon) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

> political correctness

I'm not sure how you can characterize being polite and respectful of your fellow human beings as a bad thing. It is not required that one be unpleasant, rude and insulting to have an impassioned argument, good arguments are always welcome here on any side of an issue but impoliteness is not.

Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Posted Jan 28, 2013 17:20 UTC (Mon) by louie (subscriber, #3285) [Link]

It turns out, after much research, that it is possible for adults to have civil conversations on controversial, many-sided topics. Asking for others to have civil conversations is not being a "political correctness Nazi", it's being a mature human being who has learned the necessary social skills to not be an asshole, and expects that same non-asshole-ness from others. For more detail, see rule #8 of Scalzi's how to be a good commenter.