It's time to stop being political

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 26/01/2025 3:19 PM, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 January 2025 at 23:17:50 UTC, torhu wrote:
>> The official D Discord is very political. I think it's time to stop 
>> that now. Tell the people that are doing it that they have to stop, or 
>> just stop linking to that Discord. Discord works well for discussing 
>> programming, it has good support for synthax highlighting, etc. So 
>> having a Discord is good, but one that is political puts people off.
> 
> I was curious what this was about, so I went to the community Discord 
> and searched the history for your username.
> 
> Here's what actually happened: you saw one user in the Discord with 
> pronouns in their display name and threw a tantrum about it. Before 
> that, everyone was talking about programming. As far as I'm concerned, 
> that makes you the one "being political."

Confirmed. No actions were taken from a moderator as it was solved using 
push back rather than using powers.

Public channel log shows OP was the source and was not entertained as 
acceptable behavior.

Our official stance on the Discord server is that pronouns are a normal 
part of the English language, it is not for us to judge why someone 
prefers one set over another as long as they are common and not at all 
offensive (say someone using god as their pronoun). For text based chat 
it is not always obvious what people prefer, or if they have preference 
that needs to be respected.

Further discussion on this topic will not be necessary. Being respectful 
of others is a requirement of both the forum and Discord.