There really needs to be some moderation

Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 20 11:07:49 PDT 2017


On 06/18/2017 06:21 PM, Joakim wrote:
> On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 21:44:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> For further questions about what constitutes professional decorum, I 
>> recommend reading "Emily Post" books on manners which are readily 
>> available.
> 
> I would never read such a thing.  I subscribe more to the Linus school 
> that such books are written by schoolmarms who simply squeeze the 
> negativity into other possibly more corrosive behavior:
> 
> "Because if you want me to 'act professional,' I can tell you that I'm 
> not interested. I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The 
> same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm *also* not going to 
> buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and 
> backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Because 
> THAT is what "acting professionally" results in: people resort to all 
> kinds of really nasty things because they are forced to act out their 
> normal urges in unnatural ways."
> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/linus-torvalds-defends-his-right-to-shame-linux-kernel-developers/ 
> 
> 
> That is not to say I'd go around cursing like Linus, and again we agree 
> these two went overboard, but it's not a big deal and I don't think it 
> merits anything more than a warning, both here and in general.
> 
> I'll stop responding after this, as I've now made my position clear, and 
> we don't need to turn this into a big etiquette discussion. :)

Hear, hear!


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