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As I expected, it didn't take long for picture to become a bunch of dicks.

https://github.com/art-dot-git/80x40/commit/4f511b050a949bfc...

> As I expected, it didn't take long for picture to become a bunch of dicks.

In the User Trust and Safety community, this is affectionately called TTP, or Time To Penis. Whenever you launch a service that allows user-generated content it's something to consider.

I seriously don't get the humor in this.

It is forbidden imagery. Not only is it forbidden, people get extremely repulsed, revolted, indignant, angry, bothered, and censorious at the mere mention of a perfectly ordinary human organ. Imagine if the moralites went "HIDE YOUR KIDS, HIDE YOUR WIFE, CLOSE YOUR DAUGHTERS' EYES, THERE IS A SPLEEN DRAWN ON THE WALL!". Teenagers would be drawing little ovals all over the place. It's fun mainly because of people's outlandish reactions to a small soft harmless organ you hold every day while you pee.

So, it's not so much, "Hey, I drew a penis", but more "Look, I made StuffyButt1971 angry because I drew a penis"?

Hmmm... There's better things to do with one's time.

These people tend to be those with an abundance of time. It's not worth much to them.

They might say that there's better things to do with one's emotional and time resources than react to them or try to censor them.

It's effectively an subjective DoS, they can cause someone else to expend emotional/experience/effort resources disproportionate and larger than those they expended themselves.

Same argument can be made to those that get angry?

I suspect it's a mere challenge for the "troll" to see if they can beat the system. If not, they'll try harder until they can. The more challenge the more rewarding it is, thus the harder they try and eventually succeed unless it's impossible (in which case they figure it out and quit trying).

It's really the sincerest form of hacker spirit which manifests itself this way. Why? Because internet^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Hitler.

Edit: Well, I didn't quite address the art part but still.

I think the troll's motivation is closer to breaking a seemingly useless system to waste the time of those who think its important.

You can argue against something, or show it to be unworkable.

Seconded. And some people are making themselves much less employable — that commit history is there to stay.

I, too, judge peoples' employability based on whether or not they've committed a series of dicks in a lighthearted Github repo. :P

You made me want to draw some dicks in some public repo and get bad employers filter themselves out :P

Please do. If you consider a company expecting employees to have the maturity above an adolescent boy "bad employers", we'd like you to help filter yourself out.

Don't worry, you probably already filtered me out. I have plenty of ponies shown publicly in many places, including github profile. That degrades my maturity level to a little girl - and I'm not even a woman! [/s]

Any company judging "maturity" of actions done by someone in their spare time is not worth working for. It's just not their business to decide whether someone is "mature" or not, so if they cannot manage their business properly, why should I want to work with them? They probably won't be able to maintain healthy relationship with their employees anyway if they're so keen to filter out perfectly fine candidates over something so unimportant and nonharmful as low-grade sense of humor.

If you can't see the difference between ponies displayed publicly and penises displayed publicly, I'm not hiring you either.

Liking something childish and acting unprofessionally are very different aspects of immaturity. I wouldn't care about the former, but the latter may reflect poorly on the company, especially in open source where developers are like ambassadors to the community.

But if you maintain a good wall between your professional life and that immature spare time, such that the employer doesn't even see the low-grade stuff, then fine.

How does employer seeing it or not make any difference? (except the obvious one that it's hard to react to what you can't see)

It's hardly even "acting unprofessionally". It's a lighthearted project where, well, some part of the fun is waiting for the first person to draw some dicks in. If you can't get over it, that's more likely problem with your attitude, not the person's who drew it.

If the employer is worried about how you represent their public image, and you've disassociated this activity well enough that the employer doesn't know about it, then their concern is mostly satisfied.

Anyway, let the mutual filtering continue. You don't want to work for a company that cares about drawing public dicks, and such a company won't want to hire you. It doesn't really even matter to decide whose attitude has a problem -- you're just culturally incompatible.

Tastefully arranged 3x3 dick grid. Next they should make them rotate around.

It's even scripted!

Yeah, later I've seen, that this always overrides other changes.

What if there will be bunch of bots drawing penises over each other penises perpetually?

Someone is doing that at the moment

Then we reached Pennisland

Then we've reached the dongularity?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_Landscape

It is, but apparently something broke and the bot isn't getting through now. Nor am I, but I got in one last commit before they did, somehow (their pull request was made earlier, and yet?)

Which means that it's now just this, and has been for 10 minutes: https://github.com/art-dot-git/80x40/commit/675cb618fb6221d2...

Don't call it Schnitzel

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