It's time to stop being political

[torhu]

On Sunday, 26 January 2025 at 18:52:03 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 January 2025 at 03:57:03 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
> Andrew Cattermole wrote:
>> 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
>
> If we are opening the pronoun debate again; I also dislike 
> leftist pronoun announcements, when I went to mock it by adding 
> "shit/poster" to my name that was deleted several times. That 
> was a moderator action :shrug:

I do the same, I usually put AC/DC in pronoun fields. If the D 
Discord was controlled by fundamentalist Christians that asked 
for your favorite apostle when you join, I might just put "Judas" 
😄

It's very telling that the admin response to me pointing this out 
was a mix of gaslighting and blame shifting, but this is par for 
the course when dealing with this type of ideology.