[modo_mario]

>increase participation in general by discouraging behaviour that drives potential contributors away.

I seriously feel like this would do the very exact opposite. It's throwing out the baby with the bathwater in a hugely damaging way and who the actual fuck wants to work in such an environment.

And why for example do these people regardless of whether they agree with him or not genuinely believe that rms is trasphobic because he thinks there is/should be a gender neutral pronoun that would be better for common usage than they/them. I think the one he suggested sounds stupid and won't find common usage at all...but I definitely do not think he's trans-phobic because of it and that his view on this matter should somehow be a contributing factor to the entire board getting thrown out or him being shunned from anything free software sounds absolutely stupid.