Foundation’s Reply
On Friday, we made a tweet that unexpectedly led to a wave of harassment directed at our staff and community. We unequivocally condemn this abuse. The volume of negative engagement overwhelmed our moderation efforts. While attempting to protect the Godot community we mistakenly blocked individuals who were not participating in the harassment. The Godot Foundation Board takes full responsibility for these moderation actions. If you believe you were blocked in error and have not violated our Code of Conduct, please contact us with the form linked below. We are committed to swiftly rectifying any mistakes. We firmly stand by our mission to keep our community spaces free from hate, discrimination, and other toxic behaviors. - The Godot Foundation Board
On community moderator Xananax
We strongly condemn the harmful language used by Xananax, moderator of an unofficial Godot-related Discord server. We want to clarify that Xananax is not hired by nor a spokesperson for the Godot Foundation. As an organization, we have our own official Discord server, moderated together with new volunteers vetted by our team.
Context
- Link to the tweet that was the nexus for this event
- What the tweet above was referencing:
After seeing the thread, I don’t think even understand what caused the outrage. There was so much unfounded hate everywhere, what the hell? Is this normal in twitter? Or do people there simply have some sort of hate switch that gets turned on whenever someone says woke (word which, honestly, I don’t even fully understand what it means)
Reading those comments made me feel like I was reading a contest to see who could be the most hateful though, holy damn…
Twitter is a far-right oriented social network now and the far right is usually hateful by design.
Yeah that makes sense. I guess that the lack of positive replies could be attributed to the fact that the “real godot community” has long since left twitter. It’s quite sad that the only people who still use it are those who spend their time spreading hate for whatever reason… Though on the bright side, them having their own little far-right social media to play means that there’s a smaller chance they’ll pervade other social media, which is a good thing. I definitely don’t want to see those type of people here on lemmy!
Honestly I wonder if the chuds are trying to coordinate a ‘godot-gate’ because they have nothing better to do with their lives.
To be completely honest, this whole thing seems to have nothing to do with godot at all. These bullies found a target, that’s all. I can only assume that once this whole “controversy” dies out, their reaction to godot will be “godot? Wazzat? Never heard of it.”
So I don’t think anything like a godot-gate will come out of it (assuming a godot-gate would be something like boycotting godot, or campaigning against its use)
I don’t think it’ll work, but I don’t put it past them for trying.
Very funny, the people who were saying “good luck losing your customers!” Uh, it’s FOSS lmao. What customers?
Godot definitely has sponsors which while not directly being “customers” are still very important when it comes to financing the development of the engine
Having said that I want to believe current sponsors won’t have issues with the Godot Foundation here
@kryllic It is crazy how this non-issue is becoming somekind of controversy. It was posted on that hate-filled site. I am not taking the reaction seriously at all. Godot is awesome and nothing has changed that.
Oh noooo, not the Godot customers :(((((
An organization that can admit its mistakes, stand behind its employees, and offer a way to try to fix their mistakes? Now this is a great PR move.
Based and godotpilled
