The official D Discord is very political. I think it's time to stop that now. Tell the people that are doing it that they have to stop, or just stop linking to that Discord. Discord works well for discussing programming, it has good support for synthax highlighting, etc. So having a Discord is good, but one that is political puts people off.
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January 25 It's time to stop being political | ||||
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January 26 Re: It's time to stop being political | ||||
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Posted in reply to torhu | On Saturday, 25 January 2025 at 23:17:50 UTC, torhu wrote: >The official D Discord is very political. I think it's time to stop that now. Tell the people that are doing it that they have to stop, or just stop linking to that Discord. Discord works well for discussing programming, it has good support for synthax highlighting, etc. So having a Discord is good, but one that is political puts people off. I was curious what this was about, so I went to the community Discord and searched the history for your username. Here's what actually happened: you saw one user in the Discord with pronouns in their display name and threw a tantrum about it. Before that, everyone was talking about programming. As far as I'm concerned, that makes you the one "being political." |
January 26 Re: It's time to stop being political | ||||
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Posted in reply to Paul Backus | On 26/01/2025 3:19 PM, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 January 2025 at 23:17:50 UTC, torhu wrote:
>> The official D Discord is very political. I think it's time to stop that now. Tell the people that are doing it that they have to stop, or just stop linking to that Discord. Discord works well for discussing programming, it has good support for synthax highlighting, etc. So having a Discord is good, but one that is political puts people off.
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> I was curious what this was about, so I went to the community Discord and searched the history for your username.
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> Here's what actually happened: you saw one user in the Discord with pronouns in their display name and threw a tantrum about it. Before that, everyone was talking about programming. As far as I'm concerned, that makes you the one "being political."
Confirmed. No actions were taken from a moderator as it was solved using push back rather than using powers.
Public channel log shows OP was the source and was not entertained as acceptable behavior.
Our official stance on the Discord server is that pronouns are a normal part of the English language, it is not for us to judge why someone prefers one set over another as long as they are common and not at all offensive (say someone using god as their pronoun). For text based chat it is not always obvious what people prefer, or if they have preference that needs to be respected.
Further discussion on this topic will not be necessary. Being respectful of others is a requirement of both the forum and Discord.
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January 26 Re: It's time to stop being political | ||||
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Posted in reply to Paul Backus | On Sunday, 26 January 2025 at 02:19:04 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: >Here's what actually happened: you saw one user in the Discord with pronouns in their display name and threw a tantrum about it. Why I am not surprised. |
January 26 Re: It's time to stop being political | ||||
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Posted in reply to Paul Backus | On Sunday, 26 January 2025 at 02:19:04 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: >On Saturday, 25 January 2025 at 23:17:50 UTC, torhu wrote: >The official D Discord is very political. I think it's time to stop that now. Tell the people that are doing it that they have to stop, or just stop linking to that Discord. Discord works well for discussing programming, it has good support for synthax highlighting, etc. So having a Discord is good, but one that is political puts people off. I was curious what this was about, so I went to the community Discord and searched the history for your username. Here's what actually happened: you saw one user in the Discord with pronouns in their display name and threw a tantrum about it. Before that, everyone was talking about programming. As far as I'm concerned, that makes you the one "being political." Nope. I was in the Discord for a long time, but left a year or two ago because I don't like politics being infused where it doesn't need to be. |
January 26 Re: It's time to stop being political | ||||
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Posted in reply to torhu | On Sunday, 26 January 2025 at 16:48:02 UTC, torhu wrote: >Nope. I was in the Discord for a long time, but left a year or At least you continue using D - this is the only that matter |
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Posted in reply to Sergey | On Sunday, 26 January 2025 at 16:55:29 UTC, Sergey wrote: >On Sunday, 26 January 2025 at 16:48:02 UTC, torhu wrote: >Nope. I was in the Discord for a long time, but left a year or At least you continue using D - this is the only that matter Yes, that's what I originally did. I'm thinking about doing some a work on a D project again now. |
January 26 Re: It's time to stop being political | ||||
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Posted in reply to Paul Backus | On Sunday, 26 January 2025 at 02:19:04 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: >I went to the community Discord and searched the history for your username. Here's what actually happened: you saw one user in the Discord with pronouns in their display name and threw a tantrum about Maybe the lesson to be learned is that much like the ‘Boolean’ logic in our hardware that operates by reinterpreting arbitrary voltages as low and high, we too arbitrarily categorise things as political because they’re foreign to our black and white perception of the world. |
January 26 Re: It's time to stop being political | ||||
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Posted in reply to IchorDev | On Sunday, 26 January 2025 at 18:42:01 UTC, IchorDev wrote: >On Sunday, 26 January 2025 at 02:19:04 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: >I went to the community Discord and searched the history for your username. Here's what actually happened: you saw one user in the Discord with pronouns in their display name and threw a tantrum about Maybe the lesson to be learned is that much like the ‘Boolean’ logic in our hardware that operates by reinterpreting arbitrary voltages as low and high, we too arbitrarily categorise things as political because they’re foreign to our black and white perception of the world. yes the real lesson was that we need to swap computers to balanced triarny its what boole wouldve wanted |
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Posted in reply to monkyyy | On Sunday, 26 January 2025 at 18:45:18 UTC, monkyyy wrote: >yes the real lesson was that we need to swap computers to balanced triarny its what boole wouldve wanted Actually I'd love that. |