I’d like to make a suggestion.
This Manifesto is well thought out and discusses important points. The insufficiency of just ‘doing no evil’. A list of important efforts underway. Personal experiences of the authors. It’s an extremely laudable action by these women. It deserves discussion and praise.
Which is why I find it very unfortunate that the discussion here just got stuck on Coderay being wrong. And in fact, nobody has even laid out why Coderay is wrong. The Github and Gurbaksh Chahal cases could be interesting discussions. What other actions should Github have taken? Mr. Chahal was eventually fired: how have things improved? Where do we need to get to? How do any of these examples make you personally feel?
When we get off topic into criticizing an individual, we lose the opportunity for productive discussion. So I’m going to suggest to everybody this: When you want to point out that a commenter is wrong, pair it was something constructive. Share your own experience. Praise a point in the article. Try to start a discussion on an interesting, positive tangent
It’s of course just a suggestion you’re free to ignore. But I do think it helps move discussions towards productive threads.
