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>>elsewh+(OP)
These ideas can come from good intentions, but what it often means is that a certain opinion is the _right one_ and another opinion isn't.

As an example, some parts of the internet ostracised Brendan Eich for a personal donation he made to support a Californian ballet proposition on same sex marriage; forcing his resignation. There were no complaints about any of his behaviour or actions at Mozilla whatsoever.

That's not a good thing to be doing.

As another example, the recent Stack Overflow changes where a controversial, over-empathsised policy change on respecting pronouns (also pretty much a non-issue, I have never seen pronoun complaints come up on Stack Overflow) has forced multiple community moderator resignations and a widespread community revolt.

These changes are often negatives for the projects involved.

>>dannyw+93
> also pretty much a non-issue, I have never seen pronoun complaints come up on Stack Overflow

Eh, there are. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean there aren't any reports.

>>thrwaw+a4
Most users on Stack Overflow use nongendered pseudonyms, and as a Q&A site, they go out of their way to explicitly discourage conversation. If you do need to a reply to a user in the comments, the convention is @username, no pronouns needed.