On: The dark side of open source conferences [about women being harassed]

[StudyAnimal]

That reminds me, what happened with the Florian Leibert scandal? Any word from him since the event?

[wyclif → StudyAnimal]

What happened is that she called the Atlanta police, who found no cause to charge him. End of story.

[follower → wyclif]

[Citation needed.]

[wyclif → follower]

http://blog.nerdchic.net/archives/418/

[semanticist → wyclif]

I don't see anything in her blog post that supports what you've said. If it's in the comments you might want to quote it.

[maco → wyclif]

Yes, it says she went to the police. Where does it say the police didn't care?

[wyclif → maco]

I didn't say the police didn't care, I said they didn't file charges. The difference is instructive.

[forgotusername → StudyAnimal]

It appears to have died, or migrated to more appropriate fora. Thankfully.

[trevi → forgotusername]

By the way who really uses fora as the plural of forum? To me it seems at best arbitrary, at worst pretentious.

[mahmud → trevi]

Pretension and grammar-Nazism are the virii of online communication.

[iwr → mahmud]

You must mean pretentiousness, surely.

[mahmud → iwr]

"Pretension and grammar-Nazism": in this phrase, the first part is honeycomb, and the second is a bear-trap.

Have a nice day.

[Waywocket → mahmud]

I see what you did there.

[moeffju → mahmud]

Wait, you mean viruses? :)

[forgotusername → trevi]

I'm sorry, next time I'll uses "forumses". Damn ecomony got all these morans backs up!

[trevi → forgotusername]

You're implying that fora is the only acceptable way of writing the plural of "forum". That's nonsense, forums is perfectly valid English. My point was: why forum/fora? Why not creditor/creditores, or abdomen/abdomina?

[forgotusername → trevi]

I'm honestly not sure. Perhaps this topic would be more appropriate for a linguistics forum?

[petercooper → trevi]

The same people who say "mouses" instead of "mice."

[jdp23 → StudyAnimal]

He hasn't tweeted since then...

The Conference Anti-Harassment policy is one of the results of the incident.