Disclaimer: I really thought long about this, and I haven't slept in two days due to ongoing harassments of 4chan. As the first people were literally arriving at my place of living, where t...
Man I just spent too much time reading about this, going down the rabbit hole, and I’m just glad that I’m part of a community (Lemmy) that is so clear about how we’re supposed to treat each other. We not only care about each others’ experience, but we’re able to avoid reproducing tropes that reinforce awful ways of understanding and treating each other.
Others can claim that the ex-maintainer of the fork at hand fanned the flames, but the flames would have never been there to begin with in a more humane context.
The maintainer created a poll to rename the project. 4Chan came up with Sneedacity. Apparently it’s a Simpson’s reference. It’s a silly name. The maintainer didn’t like it, and started saying things about 4Chan that others (see thread mentioned below) have characterized as exaggerated. 4Chan responded with threads full of mockery and bullying. The threads are available in the post where the ex-maintainer explains why they’re stepping down.
In summary, the 4Chan people who care care because they had an opportunity to do something silly and because they saw an opportunity to bully the maintainer.
Some trolling started even before by provockig as far I remember telling why was this person deciding this just in the middle of the proposals before taking action.
Hmm. Sorry, I’m having a bit of difficulty understanding what you’re saying. Do you mean that there were larger community efforts to first decide upon what to do and then act, but this maintainer ignored the community?
No, there were people just claiming that the maintainer has no right to choose these things about the project, in the middle of everything. I remember at least just a person.
Then, after the provocation and some trolling later the maintainer started moderating and replying to the provocation.
I don’t know why they just came and started provocating the situation and trolling.
Man I just spent too much time reading about this, going down the rabbit hole, and I’m just glad that I’m part of a community (Lemmy) that is so clear about how we’re supposed to treat each other. We not only care about each others’ experience, but we’re able to avoid reproducing tropes that reinforce awful ways of understanding and treating each other.
Others can claim that the ex-maintainer of the fork at hand fanned the flames, but the flames would have never been there to begin with in a more humane context.
Wtf happened? Why does 4chan care about that fork?
The maintainer created a poll to rename the project. 4Chan came up with Sneedacity. Apparently it’s a Simpson’s reference. It’s a silly name. The maintainer didn’t like it, and started saying things about 4Chan that others (see thread mentioned below) have characterized as exaggerated. 4Chan responded with threads full of mockery and bullying. The threads are available in the post where the ex-maintainer explains why they’re stepping down.
In summary, the 4Chan people who care care because they had an opportunity to do something silly and because they saw an opportunity to bully the maintainer.
Some trolling started even before by provockig as far I remember telling why was this person deciding this just in the middle of the proposals before taking action.
Hmm. Sorry, I’m having a bit of difficulty understanding what you’re saying. Do you mean that there were larger community efforts to first decide upon what to do and then act, but this maintainer ignored the community?
No, there were people just claiming that the maintainer has no right to choose these things about the project, in the middle of everything. I remember at least just a person.
Then, after the provocation and some trolling later the maintainer started moderating and replying to the provocation.
I don’t know why they just came and started provocating the situation and trolling.
Ah. Thx for clarifying.
Well, maybe there were moderation before. If messages were deleted I didn’t see them.
I didn’t arrived exactly at the moment.