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1. tlb+h7[view] [source] 2018-01-18 23:52:04
>>zdw+(OP)
I predict people will claim "our culture isn't that toxic. Some of those things happen, but they don't bother me much."

If any non-zero subset of reasonable people are so offended by a behavior that they'd leave the industry because of it, we have to cut it out.

So don't ask "would this bother me?" Ask "would it bother someone?" And since you can't predict this from inside your head, you have to rely on firsthand accounts of people being bothered. This seems like a good overview of such accounts.

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2. drdaem+9b[view] [source] 2018-01-19 00:29:59
>>tlb+h7
> If any non-zero subset of reasonable people

Isn't the problem here that there is really no global (or even industry-wide) consensus on what's reasonable and what's not?

What feels perfectly reasonable to one may look absolutely and intolerably insane to someone else. And vice versa.

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