Females in the community.

[Karabuta via Digitalmars-d]

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.
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