Shared success in building a safer open-source community

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I'm glad to see this. I've gotten to see Google folks working in this area up close in the past year and they've all been dedicated to common problems.

I'm glad this is "safer" in the proper sense of the word. And not in regulating the behaviour of contributors, which many open source communities seem bent on.

Yep. Nothing to fix here:

https://www.businessinsider.com/women-running-for-the-open-s...

Dr. Singh(https://sis.utk.edu/vandana/2019/07/02/currentnews) has empirical research demonstrating behavior issues in OSS. She even received an award from Google for her work! - https://research.google/outreach/air-program/recipients/

Thank god you dodged that bullet.

Do you have a point here? I don't think users here will appreciate your passive-aggressive remark.

Worrying about what the comment rabble on HN will "appreciate" is no useful barometer for success in progressing through life.

I merely say this because these sort of passive-aggressive remarks are generally not tolerated here. It just doesn't make for very interesting conversation, flamewars aside.

>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

To be fair, you can be snarky, upfront, direct or kind about the topic and still get the same downvotes.

I thought I was being funny, in a wink wink nudge nudge kind of way, i.e. appearing to completely miss the point of a comment injecting the culture wars into an unrelated discussion.

Aaaand we’re arguing about my intention instead. Mission successful? :)

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