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:
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.
I don’t fully agree. It’s still not good pr to lose your control and blocking innocent devs. Social media managers be doing anything to get clout.
I want to be clear that I don’t support the outrage at all. I’m just saying godot needs a community manager who can stay calm and act responsibly. Also twitter is the hell of Internet. I can’t believe people still use it.
Oh noooo, not the Godot customers :(((((
The dumbest part isn’t even the comment, it’s how many people liked it
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…
Yep, pretty normal for twitter. These reactionaries are the type to pay for blue checks so they inevitably end up dominating threads (blue checks show up at the top of replies)
Ahhh I see, that would explain it. I was kinda confused with how little positive comments there appeared to be compared to the sea of hateful ones when clicking the more replies button, but that would explain it - I hadn’t thought about it. I’ve gotta admit though, surprisingly, even after I scroll past the blue checkmarks, although the positive/negative comment ratio is much more in line with my expectations, most comments are nevertheless pretty hateful. Though I guess that can be explain with just twitter being twitter.
Thank you!
Definitely agree that it’s still much worse than expected, having those types at the top of every thread makes less hateful folk less likely to reply and ends up pushing them off the platform altogether. Kind of a vicious cycle
That Friday tweet was great 😂 though they were posting it to that cesspool, about the only thing you could expect there is the blue check babies
Their first mistake was still being on twitter
Based and godotpilled
Very funny, the people who were saying “good luck losing your customers!” Uh, it’s FOSS lmao. What customers?
@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.
That tweet was going to bring the trolls out. Why make it in the first place? It’s just there to cause drama.
It’s a statement of support of minorities. I think that’s a pretty good, fair reason, and not “just to cause drama”.
Not making a statement is letting the original statement stand.
It was some random idiot on the web talking shit. Even worse, it was an idiot on Twitter, the shithole of the internet. There’s no need to address them. Most people didn’t even know what the context was. Addressing it just gave more “publicity” to them.
It’s not even poking the hornet’s nest, it’s a calling out to a haggle of trolls. Fuck those people. Don’t give them attention.