KDE prides itself as being a community. \u00a0Is that justified? \u00a0I have seen good, hard-working people driven away from projects because they were receiving behaviour from other members of our community that they would not accept from general users. \u00a0The Code of Conduct, it seems, is for others, not for ourselves. \u00a0We have a number of people in our community that regularly use aggressive behaviour, attacking the work of others without even bothering to ask why their particular dislike was implemented. \u00a0What’s worse, they are often very respected members of the community, for the work they do – but why are they allowed to behave like this? \u00a0The CWG (and I include myself here, as I was part of it for quite a long time) have done nothing about it – because generally they don’t interfere unless there are complaints from the victim. \u00a0“We can’t offend such a valuable contributor!” \u00a0So we allow things to continue. \u00a0When a victim simply disappears from the scene, so does the problem – until next time.<\/p>\n
It’s time for some serious questions. \u00a0What should we be doing when one respected member of the community attacks others? \u00a0I’m not talking about words spoken in the heat of the moment, then retracted, but of repeated attacks, apparently designed to make the victims feel worthless. \u00a0Often the perpetrator has treated several people in the same way. \u00a0We are, or can be, better than this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KDE prides itself as being a community. \u00a0Is that justified? \u00a0I have seen good, hard-working people driven away from projects because they were receiving behaviour from other members of our community that they would not accept from general users. \u00a0The Code of Conduct, it seems, is for others, not for ourselves. \u00a0We have a number […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde","tag-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}