The FreeBSD project has always had a code of conduct. It was simple. Judge each other on each others code.

That's it. It's why the project works like it does. I'm sure there are a lot of people I disagree with ideologically contribute to a lot of stuff I use. Someone's personal life shouldn't dictate how good of a coder they are.

telnet irc.reddit.com 6667
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TapTapTap. Is this mic on? ^{Please Randi, retweet this. I've been looking for an audience.}

[Back to my bell curve] I've been around these 'internet things' for a while. It's getting old watching both sides talk past each other on everything. So people on both sides that are going to read this, please stop listening to the loudest idiots on both sides.

Some times a little anonymity is good, judge people by who they are not the baggage that comes with their name Like I said, if #GamerGhazi and #KotakuInAction would have met in #weirdobscuregame instead of where they did they would probably be good friends and maybe even date if they would just shut up about non-important stuff for long enough to talk.. They aren't tied to the persona of who they are.

If you want to go back with a new account to troll there is no 'account' to create, just /r/nick. Slashdot had Anonymous Coward accounts. Stop leaning on who you are and start making people listen to you based on the content you actually create.

You guys have already tried to take Slashdot, one of the last places where people just want to discuss tech. Most people there didn't care. We're just old gray beard fucks that want to be left in peace and discuss tech in a place with better (IMHO) moderation than Reddit. But you've now stuck your stick in a few too many bee hives[1].

That's what gets most of our attention and by proxy the attention of our wives. It's the the audience you guys and reddit are both inching towards, the 28-50 female, college educated demographic since it's the most profitable. I've already sat down and had hours long conversations with my wife about everything on all sides of Gamer Gate, The Pills, etc. She's a woman in STEM. If you think you're going to go up against actual women in STEM you better know they know how to read studies and cite sources, they're not going to fall for your bandwagon bull shit because they don't tweet, barely Facebook and are doing stuff like working and raising kids.

So assume everything you post on the internet is going to be there forever. There was no Delete button on Usenet. If you say something people are going to use it against you. Stop giving them stuff. Because Reddit and Twitter added delete buttons solutions like Archive.is sprung up. Because when someone intelligent wants to know who you are the first thing they're going to do is search for your name. You have enough baggage that most intelligent people are going to see through the bull shit. It doesn't mean they're gamergate or redpill it means they can see what you write. That's when your words have to stand on their own.

But I digress, on FreeBSD you even have guys trying to put a blanket on the fire (I don't know how some of them are so patient)

All I am saying is dont feed the troll, and most of all, dont let the immature actions of one individual sabotage valuable work to an important cause. There are a lot of personality types involved here, and just because you dont like them as a friend isnt what this is all about. If you dont like them, dont talk to them, simple as that. Personal attacks have no place here. And yes, Randi, those are personal attacks, no matter how much you try to intellectualize them.

People that, despite all this, are willing to judge you by the content of your code. Start over. Make up a new name. Never mention GamerGate again and break into some open source project completely new. Make everyone forget who you are and start over. Right now you're just grandstanding for your audience. If you want to troll us all, get AMD drivers working in FreeBSD and in a year come back and say "Ha, it was me all along". You mention you're a coder, you don't have much published under your real name so I just assume you have a pseudonym but can't find anything. (And no, a few lines in Perl is what I wrote to automate something at work, that wasn't OSS worthy).

And at this point:

• If you're really looking for something to code. I have a project idea. Thinking of mocking it up in Python if you'd be interested in contributing. Basically a full discussion STACK that went from short live (IRC), to short semi-permanent (Twitter) to Long form (Slashdot/Usenet/Email). with moderation. It needs to be an RFC and then everyone can spin up their own instance like Forums. Reddit and Slashcode are too unreadable to be easy.

• You want to get more women into STEM? I have a ton of female friends in STEM. Quit the bull shit you're doing now and get your bandwagon to get companies to change their policies. That's something twitter is great at, bullying companies. Not bullying bullying one person.[0]

• And if you really just want to stir up trouble, please break into OpenBSD. I would pay good money to subscribe to you and Theo going at it on IRC. Hell I'd watch it on Twitch.

[0]. NYTimes (a source you respect) wrote a book review of "So you've been publicly shamed".

So what does he learn? That even the toughest advocates of old-fashioned shaming techniques think their tactics pale beside social media. And that social media has made people afraid, Mr. Ronson thinks, to speak freely, lest they inadvertently become targets for some crazy reason. Its anonymity magnifies groupthink, and it lets us forget one victim as we move on to the next. A Gawker writer who savaged one woman told Mr. Ronson in the book that she’d be fine — eventually. “Everyone’s attention span is so short. They’ll be mad about something new today.”

Stop doing it. To both sides. NPR had a great story on it too.

[1]. If you don't think that FreeBSD will cut you loose you need to really start contributing a lot of code and stop attacking big developers.