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Recently, our moderators made the decision to remove the word “queer” from a user’s introduction post here on Discourse. In the moderator discussion with this user, the moderators also advised the user to remove a trans pride flag from their profile pic. This was a mistake and we apologize for that. We have updated our posting guidelines and CoC enforcement processes to better reflect our diversity policy. Ubuntu’s diversity policy is meant to ensure individuals can be honest about their identi...

Was surprised no one bothered to post this give how big of a reaction this story got.

Wanted to post the update and correction cause that deserves to be seen just as much. This seems like a reasonable, thoughtful handling of the issue.

I still don’t really wanna use Ubuntu though 😅

  • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
    27·
    23 hours ago

    Ubuntu has a diversity policy to explicitly welcome and encourage participation, mentioning that they explicitly honor diversity in sexual orientation among other things.

    I think that things would be far better if these type of informations should not be disclosed by anyone in context like this, where they are irrelevant.

      • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        And what better way to normalize diversity in this context than ignore everything but the code you submit ? We are talking about code, not personal issues.

        I mean, I don’t care that the bus driver who take me to the office this morning is gay/trans/whatever, why I should care about this for the person that send me a code contribution ? Being queer make the code inherently better ? Or bad code should be accepted because a queer person send it ?

        As I see it, you send good code it is merged, you send bad code it is refused and, most importantly, it was explained why the code is not good enough to be accepted. Nowhere in this flow knowing that you are a queer has any importance.

          • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
            1·
            26 minutes ago

            No, that’s treating you as a normal person irregardless of the private aspects of your life. You are free to disclose them and I am free to ignore them since in this context I don’t care, and I don’t see why I should care, about them.

            Else explain to me how being a queer/gay/trans/whatever impact on the submitted code or contribution.

    • cadekat@pawb.social
      7·
      23 hours ago

      Sure, maybe you don’t need to put your sexual identity in a post asking for help configuring nginx, but in an introductory post where you’re explicitly describing yourself… Yeah, I think you should be allowed to mention your sexuality.