I'd hoped I'd never have to post this. There have been some locker room jokes that continued even after I asked it be stopped. Perhaps what I wrote was missed, so I'm elevating this to its own thread.

Please regard this forum as a professional work environment as to appropriateness of postings.

If it's inappropriate for mixed company or children, it's not appropriate here. Remember that we draw from a worldwide audience, and absolutely everyone interested in D is welcome here.

On 3/17/14, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> I'd hoped I'd never have to post this. There have been some locker room
> jokes
> that continued even after I asked it be stopped.

Where? Any specific threads?

On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 09:18:43 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 3/17/14, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:
>> I'd hoped I'd never have to post this. There have been some locker room
>> jokes
>> that continued even after I asked it be stopped.
>
> Where? Any specific threads?

I think he means the "dlang.sexy" thread.

On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 10:31:54 UTC, Namespace wrote:
> On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 09:18:43 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> On 3/17/14, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>> I'd hoped I'd never have to post this. There have been some locker room
>>> jokes
>>> that continued even after I asked it be stopped.
>>
>> Where? Any specific threads?
>
> I think he means the "dlang.sexy" thread.

	**xy.com in one of my fake e-mail addresses
	as supposed to my usual @fake.com

	I use the web forum so e-mail is not
	really visible to me.

	Seems like Walter wants it seriously
	professional. No joking around about D.

On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 10:31:54 UTC, Namespace wrote:
> On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 09:18:43 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> On 3/17/14, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>> I'd hoped I'd never have to post this. There have been some locker room
>>> jokes
>>> that continued even after I asked it be stopped.
>>
>> Where? Any specific threads?
>
> I think he means the "dlang.sexy" thread.

Taking into account lots of newbies willing to share their knowledge and wisdom by giving actually bad/wrong advices, there is no surprise that forums can be abused. Add to this lots of folks who want to comment for the sake of commenting, who add 5 cents in each thread without any necessity just to be noticed, one can conclude that information ratio (information/total talk) of the forum is quite low.

By the way, the thread you mentioned is actually quite innocent.

On 3/17/14, Namespace <rswhite4@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I think he means the "dlang.sexy" thread.

I guess at a certain age people lose their sense of humor.

On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 10:46:47 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote:
> On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 10:31:54 UTC, Namespace wrote:
>> On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 09:18:43 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>> On 3/17/14, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>>> I'd hoped I'd never have to post this. There have been some locker room
>>>> jokes
>>>> that continued even after I asked it be stopped.
>>>
>>> Where? Any specific threads?
>>
>> I think he means the "dlang.sexy" thread.
>
> Taking into account lots of newbies willing to share their knowledge and wisdom by giving actually bad/wrong advices, there is no surprise that forums can be abused. Add to this lots of folks who want to comment for the sake of commenting, who add 5 cents in each thread without any necessity just to be noticed, one can conclude that information ratio (information/total talk) of the forum is quite low.
>
> By the way, the thread you mentioned is actually quite innocent.
That is the only thread I know that he had problems with.

On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 10:31:54 UTC, Namespace wrote:
> On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 09:18:43 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> On 3/17/14, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>> I'd hoped I'd never have to post this. There have been some locker room
>>> jokes
>>> that continued even after I asked it be stopped.
>>
>> Where? Any specific threads?
>
> I think he means the "dlang.sexy" thread.

The thread itself was quite appropriate as it was a genuine opportunity for D. However a few people made a couple adult related jokes here.
I just personally think that while we shouldn't ban certain subjects out right, we just need to be careful of how we approach it. I.e. don't joke about it, if it needs to be commented upon do so.

At the end of the day we are here to program. Not to tell jokes that high schoolers would laugh at.

Perhaps we need to create a community standard guidelines related to this? That way if another thread or messages that are over the top we just link them to it. After all, lets learn and evolve from mistakes. Its what we are good at!

On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 10:47:07 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 3/17/14, Namespace <rswhite4@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I think he means the "dlang.sexy" thread.
>
> I guess at a certain age people lose their sense of humor.

I think that's a little unkind.

Nonetheless, I didn't really see anything particularly problematic in that thread.

Everything is offensive to someone. Some people find swearing highly offensive. Some people find highly direct discourse offensive (we've seen that here a few times). Some people find sexual references offensive. Some find the mention of anything political or controversial to be offensive and/or unprofessional (yes, FOSS/copyright etc. is in that bracket). I personally enjoy working in an environment where all the above are accepted in the day-to-day, or at least only mildly disapproved of.

Nonetheless, Walter's forum, Walter's rules.

On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 10:47:07 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 3/17/14, Namespace <rswhite4@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I think he means the "dlang.sexy" thread.
>
> I guess at a certain age people lose their sense of humor.

Well that's uncalled for.

Plus, he does have a sense of humor.

My guess is he mistook the "quote" from that website, as actual thread content, which would have indeed been crossing the line (IMO).