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30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual

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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>, 61325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 14:05:33 +0000

Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Though I do not see why replacing the risky topics with more neutral
>> would hurt, given that the quality of a joke being changed does not
>> degrade.
>
> Because it amounts to kow-towing in front of the mob of hypersensitive
> people.

Why is it a problem?
If we can make the manual accessible to more people (hypersensitive or
not) by a slight adjustment to the joke and without compromising the
quality, why not?
I am not talking about removing every joke.

>> What is not clear for me is the word "occasional". How many jokes are
>> considered occasional? I think that it is something worth clarifying in
>> https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Humor
>
> Whatever the author of the document felt like at the time it was
> written, I think.

My question was to clarify how we should read that document. The end
goal is updating https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html with
the clarification. I assume that RMS is the right person to ask about
such thing.

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