Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines

Posted Oct 23, 2018 9:58 UTC (Tue) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines by interalia
Parent article: Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines

I like the wording and getle rationale in this document, but I do think the personalities who most need reining in are just going to look at such a thing and say "people are too sensitive, they just need to toughen up".

That is where people in BDFL-like positions get to (a) show some leadership-by-example (since the tone in a community is usually influenced by what its leaders are doing), and (b) take such a person aside and unambiguously tell them what's what.