On 17 March 2014 21:01, Andrei Alexandrescu <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/17/14, 11:49 AM, John Colvin wrote: >> >> On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 18:18:34 UTC, Dicebot wrote: >>> >>> On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 18:09:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: >>>> >>>> On 3/17/2014 3:45 AM, sclytrack wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Seems like Walter wants it seriously >>>>> professional. No joking around about D. >>>> >>>> >>>> Jokes are fine. I post plenty myself. Jokes are fine in a >>>> professional work environment. Inappropriate jokes are not. This >>>> shouldn't be a mystery. >>> >>> >>> Appropriateness of a joke is purely defined by a culture and is >>> completely subjective. It is perfectly fine to define your own rules >>> on your forum. Trying to appeal to some common morale as a basis for >>> that is not. >> >> >> +1 >> >> As I mentioned in my post below, almost anything is offensive to >> someone, somewhere. > > > Heh, case in point - there was a gentleman going by "Ramon" at a point in > this forum who flew off the handle taking offense at something I said (no > idea what exactly that was). > > >> You won't find a unified view of "Inappropriate" even among a very >> homogenous group of people, let alone an ad hoc group of collaborators >> and users spanning the entire globe, an age range of 60+ years and a >> wide variety of religious/cultural/political views and environments. > > > One can argue that it's all relative but that's rather ineffective. The > reality is I do work at Facebook with people from all over the globe and > though cultural adaptation is on rare occasions an issue, it's never been > considered inapproachable or even difficult. > > That said, I don't think it's time to establish community guidelines etc. > although at some point larger participation might create a need. > >
+1 I haven't read any other comments in that thread apart from the response from Andrei, so I can't comment for any responses after, or the appropriateness of them. But just incase you missed the original point entirely. I was suggesting a marketing strategy for Andrei in the form of sarcasm. For those who don't understand sarcasm, it's a traditionally British art-form, much like Blasphemy being a traditionally Italian - particularly around the region of Tuscany. This suggestion was not spontaneous, inspired in fact by the impression he gives off when he goes on about publicising D. A recent example, set a few days *after* dlang.sexy. I made him aware that GDC has started (fingers cross) doing regular binary build releases for Linux native and ARM cross compilers. The Response was: "We need a README, a Blog Post, a Public Announcement, and Glamorous TV Adverts!" OK - I made that last bit up. But given my ineptitude towards social media, I see all forms of social media advertisement as tedious forms of alluring appeal. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed my suggestion Andrei. :)
