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Comment by saosebastiao | Hacker News Reader

The person attempting to revoke their GPL licensed code is known for harassing the Debian Women and LinuxChix groups, as well as generally advocating for violence against women and feminists in particular. I mean the guy has openly advocated for the legalization of rape. He's absolutely a troll.

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/MikeeUSA

EDIT: lol, the trolls are definitely out in force today.

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Sounds like he needs dealing with via law .. codes of conduct won't fix his behaviour.

Which law?

And a code of conduct will absolutely make it clear that he's not welcome in the community and why, allowing the community to extricate themselves from him in a meaningful way.

It's fairly common for the troll to then start a meta-argument about the code of conduct, or, to accuse others of violating the code of conduct. Eventually the notion of "don't be an asshole" tends to win the argument, but it can take a while.

If you need a code of conduct to keep someone like him away, your project was dysfunctional to begin with.

What makes you say that?

Communities have existed since the dawn of man and CoCs weren't necessary to keep idiots away. When someone is an idiot, you don't need a set of rules to identify that he's an idiot, and to have a basis to kick him out. If you 1) can't identify idiots or 2) can't kick out idiots, then you have a dysfunctional community or no teeth. CoCs can't fix a community or make you grow teeth.

Communities have had published standards of conduct since the bronze age.

> you don't need a set of rules to identify that he's an idiot, and to have a basis to kick him out

afaik, a code doesn't exist because of an inability to identify or to (attempt to) exclude a person.

i think "to keep someone like him away" is a bit of a red herring.

http://womanofsteele.blogspot.com/2007/11/hater-mikeeusa.htm...

Wow. Some of the stuff this guy has supposedly written sounds like an Anders Breivik in the making. Certainly pushing free speech to the limits (and beyond).

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