svn commit: r218650 - head/games/fortune/datfiles

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Sat Feb 19 23:27:19 UTC 2011


On 02/19/2011 15:12, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Bruce Cran<bruce at cran.org.uk>  wrote:
>> On Saturday 19 February 2011 17:25:32 Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
>>
>>> Did anybody complain about this? If not, would you mid either revert
>>> this commit or just go ahead and move all "potentially" offensive
>>> jokes to fortunes-o? Anything from Grouch Marx or Mark Twain will
>>> probably qualify.
>>
>> I'm happy to revert the checkin if you think the fortune should be in the main
>> file, since it appears the PR submitter was complaining just as much about
>> being unprofessional as offensive.  Would you like me to go ahead and revert
>> the move?
>
> I suggest you to revert the commit

Serious overkill, particularly since:
1. The commit has already been MFC'ed, and
2. The fortune in question actually _is_ potentially offensive

And let me save you another loop through the arguments you've already 
put forward. I realize that this fortune does not offend _you_, that's 
not the issue. I also heard your argument that "If you're going to do 
this one, you have to do them all!" Which I reject with the standard 
error code, ENOTINTHIRDGRADE.

The nerderati community likes to demonstrate how cool and sophisticated 
we are at least in part by showing how un-offended we get by things in 
fortune. Well, that's great for you. The problem with diving into 
editing the fortune databases is that you run right into the mother of 
all bikesheds with everyone trying to _prove_ how hip and sophisticated 
they are. For this reason in addition to the note that I sent to this 
list I spoke privately to Bruce about the fact that what we have now is 
a sort of detente, where the people who would like to move some of the 
fortunes into fortunes-o do not do that, but we apply a stricter 
standard to _new_ fortunes. This "works" in the sense that nothing is 
really made worse by it, and everyone is a little unhappy because no one 
is getting everything they want.

Bruce did what he thought was the right thing in an effort to close a 
PR. There is no reason to castigate him for it, and there is certainly 
no reason to revert the commit. Every once in a while someone has to 
come along and step on this particular land mine, it was just Bruce's 
turn. Everyone can now move along and find more productive things to 
work on.


Doug

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