People decided they need to announce to all 15,000 members of the #general channel that they would be leaving the FP Slack, and the admin got fed up and made a rule against it while apparently also banning some people.
Personally I think they were both in the wrong. Announcing you're leaving to that channel is stupid (if you want to notify a specific channel you're apart of, that's a different story). But the admin shouldn't have banned anyone unless they did it after he affirmed the rule.
is all of this related to John DeGoes being invited to speak at the Berlin Functional Programming Group? They had a room at the FP Slack last time I was there.
I saw that talk. He made some good points regarding not using type classes. I was hoping someone would ask him what he thinks about functional languages like Elm, OCaml, etc. that don't have type classes at all.
The conference he was organizing invited an open racist to give a talk. When called out he defended their decision. Most people disagree with him at best and find his outspoken stance harmful at worst.
are we still hanging out here?
yo Noon!
It seems like bunch of people is regularly online, even if everyone's quiet :big_smile:
Maybe some weekly topic could help?
Hi! I'm gonna try to be more active on here.
I might come here more often too now that all the cool people got banned from fp slack.
why did people getting banned?
People decided they need to announce to all 15,000 members of the #general channel that they would be leaving the FP Slack, and the admin got fed up and made a rule against it while apparently also banning some people.
Personally I think they were both in the wrong. Announcing you're leaving to that channel is stupid (if you want to notify a specific channel you're apart of, that's a different story). But the admin shouldn't have banned anyone unless they did it after he affirmed the rule.
sounds like the ban is inconsequential if they were leaving anyway? unless they planned on coming back
Good point. Shouldn't really matter, should it?
Mason Mackaman said:
is all of this related to John DeGoes being invited to speak at the Berlin Functional Programming Group? They had a room at the FP Slack last time I was there.
Why are people mad about John DeGoes?
I saw that talk. He made some good points regarding not using type classes. I was hoping someone would ask him what he thinks about functional languages like Elm, OCaml, etc. that don't have type classes at all.
Christian Charukiewicz said:
The conference he was organizing invited an open racist to give a talk. When called out he defended their decision. Most people disagree with him at best and find his outspoken stance harmful at worst.