On 3/17/14, 11:49 AM, John Colvin wrote:
On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 18:18:34 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 18:09:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/17/2014 3:45 AM, sclytrack wrote:
Seems like Walter wants it seriously
professional. No joking around about D.
Jokes are fine. I post plenty myself. Jokes are fine in a
professional work environment. Inappropriate jokes are not. This
shouldn't be a mystery.
Appropriateness of a joke is purely defined by a culture and is
completely subjective. It is perfectly fine to define your own rules
on your forum. Trying to appeal to some common morale as a basis for
that is not.
+1
As I mentioned in my post below, almost anything is offensive to
someone, somewhere.
Heh, case in point - there was a gentleman going by "Ramon" at a point
in this forum who flew off the handle taking offense at something I said
(no idea what exactly that was).
You won't find a unified view of "Inappropriate" even among a very
homogenous group of people, let alone an ad hoc group of collaborators
and users spanning the entire globe, an age range of 60+ years and a
wide variety of religious/cultural/political views and environments.
One can argue that it's all relative but that's rather ineffective. The
reality is I do work at Facebook with people from all over the globe and
though cultural adaptation is on rare occasions an issue, it's never
been considered inapproachable or even difficult.
That said, I don't think it's time to establish community guidelines
etc. although at some point larger participation might create a need.
Andrei
