On Discourse rules about politics
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Recently, our moderators made the decision to remove the word “queer” from a user’s introduction post here on Discourse. In the moderator discussion with this user, the moderators also advised the user to remove a trans pride flag from their profile pic. This was a mistake and we apologize for that. We have updated our posting guidelines and CoC enforcement processes to better reflect our diversity policy. Ubuntu’s diversity policy is meant to ensure individuals can be honest about their identi...

Was surprised no one bothered to post this give how big of a reaction this story got.

Wanted to post the update and correction cause that deserves to be seen just as much. This seems like a reasonable, thoughtful handling of the issue.

I still don’t really wanna use Ubuntu though 😅

  • Botzo@lemmy.world
    103·
    1 day ago

    This response reads like a corner case bug with a workaround and a better long-term fix now in the works because it finally bit them hard enough to hurt.

    • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      I’m not sure I follow- has Ubuntu had issues with their stance on diversity before? If I understand right this forum was only recently made official and they hadn’t carefully enough reviewed the pre-existing rules

      • Botzo@lemmy.world
        2·
        15 hours ago

        It just occurred to me that the specific tone of the writing sounded more like developers writing about a bug than people addressing human issues.

        I don’t follow Ubuntu politics and hope they can learn from this experience.

        • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          12 hours ago

          Ahhh, okay, I understand what you meant now.

          Thank you for clarifying :)

          Also I swear to god, you ask a single question because you don’t follow what someone meant, and everyone decides the person you’re asking is doing wrong somehow and starts downvoting them. We really gotta figure our shit out

          • Botzo@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 hours ago

            Yeah, I wasn’t trying to offer commentary. It was pure observation.

            The irony in all of this is that we all bring expectation and prejudice to any discussion (and to think we don’t is pure hubris). So, I expected my extemporaneous comment to be controversial when I hit that post button.