Appropriateness of posts
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 18 04:53:28 PDT 2014
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:26:08 -0400, Walter Bright
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> On 3/17/2014 10:03 AM, Graham Fawcett wrote:
>> I agree that this community doesn't seem unhealthy; and also that, in
>> general,
>> sex jokes aren't necessarily a sign of sexism. But I also think it's
>> smart to
>> establish a wide margin on community practice. Correcting small,
>> potentially
>> harmful behaviours sets a boundary, and avoids having to deal with
>> larger,
>> certainly-harmful behaviours later on.
>>
>> There are plenty of appropriate forums for sex jokes on the Internet,
>> we can
>> surely live without them here.
>
> My sentiments exactly. Thanks for posting this.
>
> We (I'm presuming "we" :-) ) want D to succeed with professionals, and
> coming with that are the same standards of discourse one would expect in
> a professional work environment.
>
> And this community has been very professional by default, and I've been
> extremely pleased and proud at the high quality of the discussions here.
If this guy comes back, you may want to have a talk with him, then. He
might have got the wrong impression from you.
http://forum.dlang.org/post/gnc2ml$14ch$1@digitalmars.com
-Steve
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