From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j1RMXBre013378 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:33:11 GMT Received: from steiner.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-steiner.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.14]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1RMX9rZ029698; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:33:09 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (68-232-97-125.chvlva.adelphia.net [68.232.97.125]) by steiner.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.5.7-GR) with ESMTP id CNU57206 (AUTH spbecker); Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:33:09 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <42224AD8.9020708@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:34:00 -0500 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org CC: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is anyone a prude? References: <20050227220524.55878.qmail@web50409.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050227220524.55878.qmail@web50409.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 28d952bf-9296-4010-b193-5d83585a7e3e X-Archives-Hash: 509444de9e611d941d4b8ce70e23a309 > Using your 'common sense' how does this fit into the > 'clean language' policy? From my point of view if > that package name is allowed then the policy is > unenforcable. Your "clean language" policy is totally flawed then. Part of what makes words "offensive" isn't the word itself, but intent. Are you saying if somebody told you to "go fuck yourself" and another said something like "go have sex with yourself" on the channel, you wouldn't kick both of them, since what each said means *exactly* the same thing? If I say, "I really like using the brainfuck language, it lets me do and ," there was nothing I said with any malicious intent. Now if somebody starts spouting out crap like, "haha, I'm going to dev-lang/brainfuck you!" then that is a case where it is obvious they are just being stupid and require moderation. > > It's not a knee jerk reaction. Sure it is. While you are at it, why don't you start kicking people with l33t speak names, since that happens to offend me (in that utter stupidity offends me). While you are at it, you should also kick any person that says WTF, and LMFAO, since *everyone* knows they just said "what the fuck" and "laugh my fucking ass off" in front of the whole channel. Or, does reducing it to an acronym make it any less offensive in your eyes? > I saw this problem > coming way back. I have dealt with it before, and have > no reason to change. Do you kick people that talk about bitchx then? Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list