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Ubuntu Council corrects forum moderator's interpretation of rules relating to queerness (web.archive.org)

submitted 1 day ago by Cris_Color@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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 😅

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[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it -3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Ubuntu has a diversity policy to explicitly welcome and encourage participation, mentioning that they explicitly honor diversity in sexual orientation among other things.

I think that things would be far better if these type of informations should not be disclosed by anyone in context like this, where they are irrelevant.

[–] cadekat@pawb.social 7 points 9 hours ago

Sure, maybe you don't need to put your sexual identity in a post asking for help configuring nginx, but in an introductory post where you're explicitly describing yourself... Yeah, I think you should be allowed to mention your sexuality.