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She went on a tirade against an Opal contributor a couple years back: https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941

Didn't know about that, but abrasiveness like that is really unfortunate. It makes real progress harder because it means people dig in on views that maybe they shouldn't.

Looks like she wasn't even aware of the project, but instead saw it on a person's twitter profile and went to its github repo to get that person fired. In a way, she's doing the exact same thing, to others, that she is claiming github did to her.

And she backtracked from the aggressive tone later on: https://medium.com/@coralineada/on-opalgate-2efd0fc1e0fd

Hmm. That entire thread is full of people communicating in a fairly brusque manner -- OP's comments didn't seem like a 'tirade' to me! But I guess it's up to the receiver to decide what a tirade is.

A "tirade"? I read her statements in that thread. I'd say they were very measured.

I know. I like how the response from the project has gems like this:

  > Protip: you won't because you can't.

they opened with 'Transphobic maintainer should be removed from project'. hard for me to see that as measured.

A dev contributes to open-source, also personally expresses (in an entirely different context) views about Trans that she dislikes. Demands the dev be forcibly removed from the project, invites others into thread to say how terrible it is one of the developers has the wrong political views. Suggests (prescribes) this will put people off contributing, but while borderline threatening to spread the news of said dev's views in order to make sure this happens.

She doesn't care about said project, but to promote the idea of political cleansing in open source.

Meh's comments, while to course, are correct in the sentiment that she isn't really contributing anything, but is instead attacking. HOWEVER, he should of said "because you won't" rather than "can't", since that's just an unjustified attack on her competence as a dev.

The maintainers instant reply was super flippant and worthy of retort.

Never really wanted to use opal before, but if this is who is behind it...

Wow. That particular maintainer is really off the deep end - here is their writeup on the incident (which is pretty fucked up reading IMO):

http://meh.schizofreni.co/random/lulz/2016/01/08/tales-from-...

Don't you understand? Since the "SJWs" are wrong, any action taken against them must be right!

well that's really shitty.

I read about the first 50 replies or so and found myself agreeing with the 'meh' user, but after reading that blog post, it seems aredridel was on to something...

Eh, it's only brass if you don't get "lulz" humor/culture.

The blog post only further confirms what a self-righteous jerk ‘meh’ is... it’s clearly not a joke but some strange mini-achievement in “freedom” and upsetting the “cucks” (meanwhile getting an F in human decency).

What a perverse individual. God help this country that has such people in it.

The only fucked up thing I see is use of the word "faggot" (and possibly "cuck"), what else?

It's pretty strange to read through that issue and come away thinking Coraline is the one with a problem.

Wait, so some person reads a twitter post of someone commenting on kids going through sexual reassignment surgery and how they consider it an issue.

They find a project they're associated with. They go on it's github repo and they start an issue with a title of "Transphobic maintainer should be removed from project". Not "Potentially transphobic maintainers and how their association with the project hurts it in the long run". Not even "My feelings were hurt after I interpreted some comment of one of the maintainers in some way, please let's discuss". No, they simply demanded removal of someone, based on an, at best, ambiguously "transphobic" twitter comment.

And you're here telling me that person isn't the one with the problem.

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