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Fair question. I never really seen it on the mailing lists, as those are low volume and technical.

Looking at my IRC logs over the last six months I see one joke-ish comment from a fringe person that VT100 clearly must be racist as it does not support Unicode skin colour emoji merging and one core-ish member chuckling (I will not quote as I find doing so without consent to be morally questionable). This took place in a mostly technical discussion about the complexity of "improving" Unicode handling in st(1). That is it.

I have never really seen something so bad that I would argue for a ban (but that is of course a subjective judgement) and there is a line of thought that ignoring is better than trying to build a wall of rules and "feeding" the trolls by going after them. Whether this is true I am not sure, but I happily take part in both stricter and more lenient communities myself and can see advantages and disadvantages of both.



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