Recently one of our developers decided he would raise hell in one of our irc channels. “For the lulz” he said. What ensued was a rather large number of kicks which ended in a ban. I contacted him and tried to talk to him. He wouldn’t agree at first, then stopped answering, and went on in another channel. I spent a good amount of time trying to reason him at around midnight my local time knowing I had an early meeting at the office the day after. He stopped and apologized a few seconds before I hit the button to suspend him.<\/p>\n
He didn’t have any really bad intentions but he still created a shitstorm. In his mind everybody overreacted but there was one thing that he didn’t understand. Him behaving like this made a few people unhappy. Whether they were right or wrong to be unhappy, they were, and they showed it. In return they started filling some of your fellow devs’ maiboxes, and irc queries started popping faster than it is humanly possible to answer. In short after a few minutes some of us had their screen blinking like Christmas trees.<\/p>\n
So, kids: don’t make an ass of yourselves in public, whether on irc or elsewhere. And if you absolutely have to do so don’t do it in a #gentoo- channel, and preferably not with your gentoo irc cloak. If you don’t do it for yourself do it out of respect for those whose task it is to try and maintain a semblance of peace on irc or on our mailing-lists. And think of all those traces you’re leaving behind for the next time you’ll look for a job. Think also of the image you’re projecting for the whole Gentoo community. You’re a developer, so if you care show yourself and your distro in good light.<\/p>\n
And remember that we’re a large project with all kinds of different cultures. Something that may seem totally insignificant and\/or funny to you may (and will probably) be seen as abrasive by others. We have to operate on a lowest common denominator. That’s unfortunate but there’s no way around it.<\/p>\n
Thanks for your attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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