Le 05/01/2016 15:31, Peter Lind a écrit :
A quick question: suppose you're from a minority group, and you've been the target of abuse previously your life. You now join the PHP community and for whatever reason, someone takes a dislike to you and starts harassing you in private. The abuse makes use of the same stuff you've been through before, and because this is a real douchebag, some very humiliating things are thrown in for good measure. How exactly would you feel about having all of this made explicit to all the other PHP devs? Presumably you look up to some of these people - would your first thought be "Oh I know! I'll post all this nasty stuff to a public mailing list, that is archived on the web where EVERYONE can see all the humiliation coming my way - and where google is sure to pick up all these things about me!"? If you happen to belong to a minority group that often is at the receiving end of abuse, what would you think if this was the message being sent? Would you expect to be understood by your peers, or would their concern about being possibly accused of something seem like an out-of-hand rejection? Regards Peter
You're probably right but that all sounds too 'american' to me. These questions of 'minority group' refer to a multi-cultural situation that is totally foreign to my culture. But I understand it may be an important concern for others.
Anyway, I don't say that it cannot happen, I just say that, AFAIK, we never got such concerns in the PHP community. So, maybe we should go the 'politically-correct' way but I'm afraid that's just a waste of time or, as Stas said, a solution for no problem.
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