David C. Rankin wrote:

On 5/28/24 11:38, Atri Bhattacharya wrote:

Seeing hard pejoratives used to demean specially-abled living beings
casually thrown around on these lists is shocking but not surprising and
  reveals more about the quality of this ML than any spam.

ROTFLMAO :)

You haven't been here long enough to have lived the saga of SUSE/openSUSE/SUSE
from the times of Pro releases and boxed sets on floppies ... well before the
2005 deal with the devil.

If you had, you would have understood the humor in the post :)

I have been here long enough to know that it is partly because of this
kind of "humour" that the project has been forced to codify common sense
behaviour into an official CoC charter [1]. Note that the CoC does not
provide exceptions allowing transgressive behaviour from anyone, not
even if they claim to have been here forever, chit-chatting, spreading
FUD, or whatever.

That is not the only reason the project felt it necessary to codify that. The other reason is that we have chosen to apply less common sense and forgiving interpretation of statements - because the claim of humor and context can be used to hide malicious intend. As we balance the sensitivities of some against the ways that others express themselves, the CoC is a choice that is simple and clear, and probably a good one, too. But it is not without consequences, it comes with a chilling effects, and you clearly cannot please everyone. A project that does not need a CoC is more healthy than one that does. Andreas