Comment by freetime2
7 years ago
I did not offer any opinion other than I don't like using the word toxic to describe people. But since you bring it up, my opinion on the article is that the author is in no way obligated to contribute code to open source communities that she doesn't like dealing with. In other words, I agree with her. I'll even go a step further and say that I support codes of conduct for online communities if they encourage civil discourse and encourage more people to participate.
As for my motivations - my comment was actually more inspired by the comments here than the original article (61 occurrences of the word toxic at the time I write this). Are you now going to suggest that my intent is to undermine everyone who used the word toxic here and replace their opinions with my own? Or are you willing to accept my plea to stop referring to people as toxic at face value?
Neither.
I am more curious why do you dislike the word "toxic" being used to describe people?
Because it is imprecise and dismissive.
Says you. Let's recognize the undeniable fact that it's just your opinion. Same as the people using the word toxic saying it's deserved (your opponents) -- that's an opinion as well. If you are open to discuss your definition then a talk might happen. If not, everybody is stuck in their own confirmation bias.
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