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:
I can’t even figure out who got mad over what here.
I think the Twitter manager is lgbt or something and wanted to promote lgbt representation. They used the term “woke” in an official tweet where they intended to achieve this.
My understanding is that “woke” is a poorly defined political term.
People apparently asked for the engine to not get political and a lot of people got banned simply for criticising the tweet. I don’t see anything particularly wrong with the tweet, nor with a lot of the criticism that apparently happened. Banning people for criticism seems very unprofessional though.
Perhaps the Twitter manager took it as people calling the existence of lgbt political? Perhaps there was a large number of troublemakers who had to get banned and some innocent people criticising the tweet got caught in the crossfire? Perhaps the Twitter manager really was acting maliciously? I don’t know what happened.
Edit: It seems it was the second one.Apparently sponsors got banned and stopped their support, and developers got banned from the GitHub.
I don’t care about twitter drama as I don’t use twitter, I just hope that this doesn’t affect the codebase.I’ve seen a lot of drama channels on YouTube talk about this, but I haven’t seen anything from the YouTubers who I trust to talk about FOSS yet. From what I gather, there doesn’t seem to have been any major problems yet. It just seems to be things getting blown out of proportion. People make money from clicks and engagement. Fear and rage generates clicks.
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
I’m honestly convinced there’s a multiplier on likes to boost apparent engagement. That or I have finally lost all hope for humanity
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.
Based and godotpilled
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
I saw a video about all this last night and it was really disheartening how many people are insulting people.
Edit: here’s a piped video link to the video. https://piped.video/watch?v=wdeto5kXd40&t=0
And YouTube for the comments https://youtu.be/wdeto5kXd40&t=0
The video itself wasn’t great, but it at least seems somewhat impartial. I was really tired and was having a hard time processing what his intentions were as he was going over everything. On top of that, reading the comments at the same time made it even more difficult, since so many are agreeing with the YouTuber but are being so hateful about it. The YouTuber doesn’t seem explicitly hateful, but like I said it isn’t great. Also, it seems inaccurate now given that the video came out so quickly and the way it was handled by Godot.
That is to say, I’m pretty sure his premise of the video is that Xanax was an official community manager. So again, really not great and yet the comments in support are just… Evil and cruel.
Bro that’s HiroHei. He’s notorious in the youtube’s gamergate community. He is hateful
Best to block the channel unless you want to get pulled into the alt-right drain
That makes a lot of sense. Never came across him before, thanks for the info!
No problem! 👍
Him and Rev can go fuck themselves and die
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.
