[village-idiot]

That's all kind of tossed out the window when people start bullying the maintainer to get their way. Now you have to deal with the fact that some members of the debate are decidedly acting in bad faith, making it much cheaper to simply say "okay, fuck off now, we aren't talking about this".

[Washuu]

That is exactly what I have done in the past. I have told social justice warriors patrolling around to random projects that do not even contribute to leave and not come back. My response to those that do contribute to the project is, "Are you will to make, test, and solely support this massive change for the next three years as part of a long term support release?".

[debaserab2]

That’s.. really interesting. I’m having trouble figuring out how a codebase could offend a person. It has to be more than using masculine pronouns or something - do you have any examples you’d share?

[Nadya]

There are a lot of busybodies on Github, sometimes these go viral on Twitter and other locations for the heated discussions. Here's a small collection of various levels of offence. Some are merely polite requests and some are "horribly offended". I think one or two of them may even be concern trolls but that doesn't matter since they still got the changes made.

There are a few hundred other examples to pull from, these are just a few I chose at random while trying to select ones that are more about the code, or terms used in the code, than contributors or maintainers of the code.

[0] https://github.com/WICG/feature-policy/issues/150

[1] https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts/pull/152

[2] https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code/pull/20

[3] https://github.com/braydie/HowToBeAProgrammer/issues/68

[4] https://github.com/spencermountain/compromise/issues/117

[5] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/pull/3484

[6] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3721

[7] https://github.com/twolfson/sexy-bash-prompt/issues/56

[8] https://github.com/infinitest/infinitest/issues/149

[9] https://github.com/edankwan/penis.js/issues/7

[10] https://github.com/Colorsublime/Colorsublime-Themes/issues/8...

[debaserab2]

Wow, thanks for all the links. I just spent way too long reading all of these.

I found some of the requests to be pretty reasonable. Some were reasonable, but not very pragmatic. Some just kinda elicited an "eh, come on?" sort of response.

[spin]

Haha, yeah, I just read through that entire list. I'd say that more than half of those seemed very reasonable and civilized to me. But the people complaining about penis.js seemed to have completely missed the point of that whole project.

I then started browsing through my own code to see if anything seemed offensive. One thing that caught my eye: in SPI communications, there is very clearly a "master" and a "slave". I have programmed many SPI-related code... So now I wonder, what was the original complaint in calling Redis servers "master" and "slave"? That terminology is very, very common in computers.

EDIT: I guess this is the original complaint?: https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/3185

EDIT #2: I guess I'm late to this conversation: http://antirez.com/news/122