<story><title>Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation</title><url>https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs/commit/b872229427dddb9b749f46af597e85e25cf2955a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gotostatement</author><text>What I believe has happened here is that the well-pointed satire actually offended some people who have made their career doing what the satire criticizes. Thus they have mobilized all sorts of specious attacks to take it down - arguing that it is somehow contributing to sexism or elitism [0], and arguing it makes the documentation more confusing (&amp;quot;oh won&amp;#x27;t someone please think of the new developers!&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;LiaSae&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1367074344313237507?s=20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;LiaSae&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1367074344313237507?s=20&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SilverRed</author><text>I think at this point we can conclude that humor of any form no matter how tame it is, is not accepted on the internet. At least not under your real name.&lt;p&gt;It just takes one person to write a rant and then its all over. Thousands of examples but a similar one was VSCode having to remove the santa hat from an icon on Christmas because someone claimed it was extremely offensive. I know I&amp;#x27;m starting to sound like an American conspiracy theorist about the war on christmas, but the reality is that you just can&amp;#x27;t show any kind of personality, humor, or fun on the internet without putting yourself at risk.</text></comment>
<story><title>Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation</title><url>https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs/commit/b872229427dddb9b749f46af597e85e25cf2955a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gotostatement</author><text>What I believe has happened here is that the well-pointed satire actually offended some people who have made their career doing what the satire criticizes. Thus they have mobilized all sorts of specious attacks to take it down - arguing that it is somehow contributing to sexism or elitism [0], and arguing it makes the documentation more confusing (&amp;quot;oh won&amp;#x27;t someone please think of the new developers!&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;LiaSae&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1367074344313237507?s=20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;LiaSae&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1367074344313237507?s=20&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brailsafe</author><text>Ugh. I wonder if Twitter was started from scratch today, they&amp;#x27;d be thinking &amp;quot;We need a platform for all the scolds and sanctimonious people out there who have nothing better to do but correct people&amp;#x27;s thoughts.&amp;quot;. Probably, because there&amp;#x27;s a lot of them out there.</text></comment>