[BESebastian]

You're reading this entirely wrong. This is an opportunity to submit requests (you know how pull requests aren't automatically accepted, right?) to help clean up the vile bigotry that exists within people's repos.

If you honestly believe this to be "bullying" or "vigilantism" then you're rocking one serious persecution complex with this issue. For people like us, this shit is actually important. You're complaining about generic curse words like "fuck" and "shit" and entirely missing the point.

Slurs like those mentioned in the article aren't just words, for people who have had to live with those insults our entire lives, they have history and they have been used to insult and oppress us. Get the fuck off your high horse because _you're_ not offended and perhaps put yourselves in the shoes of someone who has had these words used against them, spat with bile and venom, for decades.

Also, in "your day" you ended up with broken bones, well that's great, I've got two dead friends who committed suicide because of words like these over the years. This isn't a dick waving competition, this shit has serious effects on people.

[thescribe]

Good job justifying harassment. I'm sure anyone who bullied you thought they were justified too.

If turning the tables to people you agree with causes an action to become worse, you're applying special pleading.

[BESebastian]

> Good job justifying harassment. I'm sure anyone who bullied you thought they were justified too.

I'll try and keep calm when I explain this because, quite frankly in context, this is a ridiculous thing to say.

Consider, if you will, which of the following constitutes harassment or bullying.

a) Peppering your code with racist, homophobic, sexist, transphobic, or generally any other type of bigotry and posting it in a public place.

b) Correcting code which contains bigoted slurs, submitting a pull request and saying "Hey, I removed the stuff that makes people feel bad, would be super rad if you accept".

If you picked option b, I'm sorry, that's the wrong answer. But I'm a pretty nice guy, so I'll let you have another try!

[thescribe]

Don't get me wrong, a is reprehensible, but you're conflating b which honestly is a good thing, with "organize an event that implies inundating people"

from the site: "We can’t force developers to change their code - but eight hours of pull requests from ethical coders the world over might just make people stop, think, and change their ways."

In context this sounds like a bully tactic, regardless of how good of a cause it is.

Edit: it looks like they've addressed the idea of spamming developers in their FAQ now, so this is basically all moot.