Females in the community.

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 12 April 2016 at 14:57:33 UTC, Karabuta wrote:
> On Monday, 11 April 2016 at 17:12:03 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> On Saturday, 26 March 2016 at 19:52:18 UTC, QAston wrote:
>>> A person who advocates for a more welcoming community and 
>>> wishes for objective moderation introduces a divisive topic
>>
>> You need to relax. The topic wasn't divisive. I haven't asked 
>> for moderation. I haven't argued in favour of objectivity. 
>> What is appropriate and not appropriate in an off-topic social 
>> thread like this is entirely cultural. I don't consider 
>> politics to be particularly contentious, and have never seen 
>> it been made an issue of, outside of very narrow US contexts, 
>> in my past _30_ years on the Internet. The overall problem 
>> with this mentality is that you aren't supposed to mention 
>> politics _in case_ someone gets offended, not because they 
>> actually do get offended. Which pretty much makes it very 
>> difficult to get a working democracy.
>>
>> What _is_ a problem in these forums are the level of butt-hurt 
>> personal focus, not the occasional social thread. This 
>> community would be much better if there were more social 
>> threads, actually. A general forum is _usually_ a catch-all 
>> forum, so if you guys want to allow socialization, but don't 
>> want off-topic threads you probably should consider creating a 
>> separate social forum.
>>
>> Of course, it seems like socialization is not a priority, but 
>> then you won't see the formation of strong bonds either 
>> (outside of IRC etc). Github doesn't really form strong ties. 
>> The basic idea that people will form strong teams based on 
>> code alone is not entirely well-founded.
> +1

Say the 2 guys that contributed no code, what a surprise ! Who 
could have predicted this ?