> 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!
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.
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!