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Comment by medeshago | Hacker News Reader

Of course it is. What if a contributor is harassing another team member? What if he/she is being openly racist/sexist/etc.?

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I have yet to see significant sexism/racism in open source, but I have seen an insurmountable amount of drama, bad behavior, prosecution and prejudice from people proclaiming to fight against it.

The author of the message is BurntSushi. I have seen him communicate multiple times before and he seems to be a reasonable and intelligent person.

I cannot imagine that this action is frivolous.

I believe it. I don't think it is a significant problem in OSS that we suddenly need behavior rules but there can still be instances of something like that occurring. The most convincing action was to not release details in my opinion.

It's more about people vanishing or losing their marbles.

what IF a person in a responsibility position is openly accused of being XYZ-phobic by attention-seeking, emotionally unstable netizens?

Exactly. That's what a mod team should do: sort invalid accusations out from legitimate ones.

What if accusation is proven (and this person agrees with it) but said person does eir work really good. Should ey be forcefully removed from this position? What if there is no good replacement candidate at this time?

p.s. pronouns used are from https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/495360fba7a46 , I don't think singular they is correct thing.

Your PS seems conceited to me. Singular "they" is how the community of English-speakers handles this; it harks back to at least Shakespeare. It's miles more "correct" than any weird neologisms.

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