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Abstract over examples of abuse #43

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@deeglaze deeglaze commented Jan 5, 2017

Including aggressive and explicitly abusive language is counter-productive to a CoC's mission to model good behavior and give the abused actions of recourse.

Including aggressive and explicitly abusive language is counter-productive to a CoC's mission to model good behavior and give the abused actions of recourse.
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I like this! I'll let one or two other folks get some eyeballs on it, but this LGTM. Thank you!

@@ -96,27 +96,27 @@ Admins and other leaders who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in goo

The vast majority of situations work out like this, in our experience. This interaction is common, and generally positive.

> Alex: "Yeah I used X and it was really crazy!"
> Alex: "Yeah I used X and it was [negative association with mental health]"
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Nice. Good point that including the language itself can server to unnecessarily re-traumatize.

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Many many people wouldn't know that kind of words that would involve, so could we link to this document: https://wealljs.org/rfc-slackbot-language-shorthands?

I know that you don't want us to use these words in our documentation (i agree), but people need to know what we dont tolerate and mental health slurs are so ingrained in our culture.

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LGTM. Thanks for bringing this up.


> Alex: "/admin hey uh. Can someone look at #javascript? Patt is getting a bit aggro. I tried to nudge them about it, but nope."

> MxAdmin1: <joins #javascript> "Hey Patt, admin here. Could you tone it down? This sort of attack is really not okay in this space."

> Patt: "Leave me alone I haven't said anything bad wtf is wrong with you."
> Patt: "Leave me alone I haven't said anything bad [aggressive jab]."
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I think that [aggressive jab] here isn't even required; rejecting MxAdmin1's comments would be bad enough without attacking the admin.

@@ -96,27 +96,27 @@ Admins and other leaders who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in goo

The vast majority of situations work out like this, in our experience. This interaction is common, and generally positive.

> Alex: "Yeah I used X and it was really crazy!"
> Alex: "Yeah I used X and it was [negative association with mental health]"
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Many many people wouldn't know that kind of words that would involve, so could we link to this document: https://wealljs.org/rfc-slackbot-language-shorthands?

I know that you don't want us to use these words in our documentation (i agree), but people need to know what we dont tolerate and mental health slurs are so ingrained in our culture.

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@deeglaze We definitely want to be mindful with language. Several of these suggested changes would remove the context from these scenarios (for instance line 99/Alex's statement). Those unfamiliar with how certain charged words stigmatize mental health will not know what is being discussed. I agree with Charlotte's suggestion of linking to the Slackbot shorthands. That way, folks can educate themselves on being more careful with the language they use.

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