Post #4856903 · Elektrine

2026-09-26 13:50 UTC

@WPalant@infosec.exchange If a contributor keeps their fascist views outside of the project spaces but openly posts them elsewhere, what should a project do? I think that many projects are fine with that as long as the said contributor doesn't attack other project members, but maybe they shouldn't be. In the case of KDE, one user posted a comment in a discussion thread about technical policy, calling out another user for their racist posts elsewhere. I think that a technical discussion thread is not an appropriate venue for discussing other people's conduct, and so some moderator action was warranted.

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@WPalant@infosec.exchange 2026-09-26 14:00

@abacabadabacaba@infosec.exchange If you don’t know it already you might want to look up the thread that coined the term “Nazi bar.” They always do this stuff elsewhere at first. They will only show their true face in the project once they brought in enough friends or are otherwise in a position of power where they feel that they cannot be kicked out any more. So the stance “we only care about what people do in our spaces” is, quite frankly, a naive one. Projects should be paying close attention when somebody is called out for things they do elsewhere. Shooting the messenger is an extremely wrong approach, no matter the circumstances, and I hope that KDE still comes around to understand this.

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