Re: I get it. Really I do,
> There's this word - 'respect'. All the CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md files popping up on Github won't fix anything
On the contrary, they ones I've seen (and they're all copypasta) make things worse...
> unless people require respect from each other.
...for exactly this reason. They just fail to acknowledge that other points of view may exist and be just as respectable, and that it is actions not words that matter.
Case in point, some sad idiot (I do not use that word lightly) on the Node.js IRC channels who runs a bot that intercepts any references to God, guys and the like so she can come and scold people. Things go like:
someone: "Thank you for your help, God bless you!"
otherperson: "Cheers!" (whether I believe in God or not, I figure a blessing can't hurt)
bigot: "Hey someone, please do not bring up religion here, not everyone is a believer" (so fucking what? Some people are. Live and let live)
someone: "Hello guys!"
bigot: "We're not all guys here, you know?" Guess what, the dictionary defines 'guys' as "people of either sex". It might have been childish but I started mocking her by greeting the chatroom with "Hello guys and the YY-chromosomed amongst you!" (for the ones who slept through biology class, in humans the YY chromosome pair is not viable).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
