Dirkjan Ochtman posted on Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:53:25 +0200 as excerpted: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 <someone> wrote: >> The only position you don't want vapier in is behind you. He humps. > > This seems rather wildly inappropriate. WTF?
FWIW, it's apparently an inside joke going back many years, possibly to before I came to gentoo over ten years ago now. I don't know how it started, however, or what the exact inside joke is, but was never really comfortable with it myself, either. Except that being a user on a dev list I feel a bit like a guest, and as a guest, unless it's criminal if those for whom it is home don't have a problem with it, I don't feel it's my place to object, more to simply uninvite myself if I'm that uncomfortable with it, and it turned out I wasn't /that/ uncomfortable with it after all. Never-the-less, it reads like there's at least some objection now from someone who /can/ rightly to call this list home, and I can't disagree with it. The comment does seem to have been inline with past norms, but I for one would consider it an improvement if I never see it here again, even if I don't find it objectionable enough to uninvite myself from the list over. Put another way, I'm ordinarily proud to mention that I'm a gentooer and gentoo-dev-list regular. I can't be proud of that comment, nor would I be particularly proud to claim that status in the context of that comment. Yet as a guest here it's not a behavior norm I have much control over, something I /could/ point out in that context. But I'd definitely be proud to be able to say that while it was an accepted norm in the past, that's no longer the case. =:^| -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
