Just wow.... it was just a little while ago we had this very conversation here, but I guess haters gonna hate and they just have to try and spread that hate. As much as one would like to consider this topic "different" from the earlier it really is the same. The difference this time around is that it was brought up in a polite manner on the same platform, then OP tried to undermine the volunteers on Reddit with a poll to make a point which turned out to be a waste of everyone's time since the entire thing got taken down by the Reddit spam filter so that was productive. It gets really interesting when the community here picks up this whole thing. How vocal a few people get about "this is a technology community, we should focus on that", and "I got far right friends and they're great", or "we shouldn't be political". So here's the thing (and this was pointed out by a number of people already) FOSS is political. You disagree with that it just means that you don't know FOSS as well as you think you do, suggest to look it up. It wasn't only a technology focused movement, and it still isn't. The code and tech we have around, and enjoy is contributed by volunteers mostly, and this is where I think there is a gap in heads. These volunteers are people. These people have lives, and on many occasions their lives are made miserable by bullies, your far right buddies and such. So let me ask you this - to all of you who are marching against the colors -: why does it hurt you so much that we're creating or at least trying to create a kind, inclusive, and welcoming community for all? Who hurt you that you feel so strongly against this? You enjoy, and profit of this community as much as the next guy. I see a lot of people on this thread asking for help from the community, and they don't check twice who the answer is coming from. You enjoy using the infra maintained by volunteers, and you don't second guess who is it taking care of it. My point is that that you're ok with taking from the community, but when we're showing support for minorities that is not ok with you. This might be news, but FOSS is built on __people__. You start going up against people and you end up alienating them, and they end up contributing somewhere else, and there is that likely chance that you will not end up filling the void they leave behind. Not talking only about the LGBTQ+ members, but people who don't feel the same way about far-right folks as you do. Word starts to spread that openSUSE is not an inclusive community, and Nazis are fine, and I guarantee that it will be the end of this project. You might be ok with having Nazis in your life, but I, or a big part of this community wouldn't, the better part of the world wouldn't. It was decided that this is a good path to go down on (as in being kind and inclusive), and we yet to see a real setback from doing so. Dealing with these type of incidents are not what moderators dream of doing when they're volunteering their time to a project, and we don't want the community to deal with this either. What you do in your life is your business, and non of us can have a say in that, but if you want to be part of a community that is actively pushing against your personal agenda it gets rough. Mostly because you're wasting everyone's time on a conversation that will likely not change the path we go down on. At the end of the day "those who do decide". My suggestion is - assuming that you want to be part of this community - to move on. Focus on what you want to do in this community. There are a plenty of things around where we would need help with. If you really want to focus on the tech part, there are plenty of things lying around so pick something up and focus on that and spare the mods from dealing with your personal issues. By now most of you know already how we deal with such actors on the various channels. If deeply religious people can work and live together with a rainbow in the logo I'm sure you can do it too. -- Br, A.