In the code of behavior of the Ruby Project, which determines the principles of friendly and respectful communication in the developer community, amended aimed at cleaning the wording, allowing abuses:
- removed the item determining the tolerant attitude to opposite opinions.
- phrase prescribing a welcoming attitude to beginners, young participants, their teachers and the accomplices of “Furgent Dragons”, expanded on all users.
- item defining the inadmissibility of mockery behavior (Harassment) is limited only protected categories (floor, racial affiliation, age, disability, skin color, nationality, religion).
- phrase that words and actions must comply with good intentions, supplemented by the fact that the participant must understand that the intentions and consequences of actions may differ.
Change is made to protect against the transition of technical discussions into a cross-time on the soil of views and the prevention of offensive for certain persons of statements under the guise of an alternative opinion. In particular, the reason for changing the code was message novice in the mailing list dedicated to the error when calculating the expression “date.today + 1”. The author of the message joked that such a mistake on the hand of women who do not like to open their true age.
In response, charges in sexism, insults and criticism about the inadmissibility of jokes in relation to vulnerable persons. Other users considered that there was nothing special in a joke and expressed by some participants an offensive reaction to a joke is more unacceptable than the joke itself. It came to ultimatum with the intention to stop using the mailing lists, if such jokes are permissible.
Opponents Code of Code consider that representatives of different cultures are presented in the community and cannot be expected from those who are not The English language carrier, the knowledge of all nuances of someone else’s political correctness. There is also concerns that the changes will be buried the possibility of expressing any humor, since any joke will definitely find the one who will feel offended.