On Discourse rules about politics
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Recently, our moderators made the decision to remove the word “queer” from a user’s introduction post here on Discourse. In the moderator discussion with this user, the moderators also advised the user to remove a trans pride flag from their profile pic. This was a mistake and we apologize for that. We have updated our posting guidelines and CoC enforcement processes to better reflect our diversity policy. Ubuntu’s diversity policy is meant to ensure individuals can be honest about their identi...

Was surprised no one bothered to post this give how big of a reaction this story got.

Wanted to post the update and correction cause that deserves to be seen just as much. This seems like a reasonable, thoughtful handling of the issue.

I still don’t really wanna use Ubuntu though 😅

  • SPRUNT@lemmy.world
    56·
    15 hours ago

    Why the fuck does an operating system have ANY rules relating to queerness?

    • Cris@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      8·
      14 hours ago

      Edit: why are y’all downvoting them for being out of the loop?? Lemmy get your shit together

      They don’t- a moderator to an online ubuntu forum community (that recently became official) misapplied a rule about keeping things apolitical as meaning someone shouldn’t describe themselves as queer.

      Ubuntu has made a statement correcting the interpretation made by the moderator

    • markstos@lemmy.world
      61·
      15 hours ago

      Ubuntu has a diversity policy to explicitly welcome and encourage participation, mentioning that they explicitly honor diversity in sexual orientation among other things. It does not explicitly mention queerness.

      A moderator made a bad a call. It sounds like there may have been some confusion about the word queer used as a slur vs a self-identification.