On Tue, Jul 02 2019, Jonathan Carter wrote: > On 2019/07/02 11:26, Marc Haber wrote: >> I do feel significantly less welcome in Debian since diversity / >> antiharassment / policitcal correctnes / CoC came around the corner. > > How so regarding diversity/antiharassment/CoC? They do nothing to > threaten or downgrade the importance of any Debian contributor.
If you look back in the Debian archives from 20 years ago, you'll find that I often participated in conversations here. Although I still read, I post maybe a few times a year nowadays. The reasons for that are many, but one huge one is: I came to decide I didn't have time for poisonous people anymore. And such people, while a minority, were particularly vocal and Debian historically gave them wide latitude. I for one appreciate our increased concern for these issues. Although I personally never took such comments as an expression of unwelcome towards me by the project as a whole, they significantly lowered the cost-benefit calculation of participating in Debian conversations for me. (Honest disagreement is to be expected and welcomed; but anti-social anger and trolling, not so much.) It has been a hard slog for this project, because freedom in all its manifestations is one of our values. We have come to realize that freedom to associate -- or not -- with people is also a freedom worth valuing.
