> Those are just stories; things that happened. What you need to provide > is *evidence* that if the community changes, things will be better, > and unless you have a study of series of collaborative groups like the > Linux kernel, that demonstrates that suppressing swearing has a > positive effect in the community, I'd say all you have is an > *opinion*. 1) There isn't going to be any hard evidence - this isn't a physics problem, or even an engineering problem. It's a social problem. There are no other collaborative groups sufficiently similar to the Linux kernel community, so there are no studies that would be relevant. Asking for the impossible is just a lame delaying tactic. 2) Sarah hasn't even asked to cut down on the swearing - so why mention it at all? Did you even read the thread? So I shall (for comedic effect) indulge in my own (uncharacteristic) bit of name calling and dub thee a troll (and every other bad thing that anyone is ever alleged of calling another on LKML, just to be sure). -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html