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[tastycode]

Every time I refer to this library in code, I'm tempted to alias it to Factory.

I'm curious as to where the name came from?

[saverio-kantox]

@saverio-kantox oh, well, it's so in the trend to change something community-important due some complaints, instead of making public poll. Who needs a democracy.

• Indeed in a democracy public polls are anonymous, to protect the identity of people that in one way or another feel threatened by disclosing their opinion to the public.
• This code is open source, feel free to fork it and release it back as factory_still_a_girl or whatever.
• In a community of any worth, there is protection of the weak. This means also that a change that goes over to protect the weak is to be done, even if it is a little discomfort for the majority
• The tech community is predominantly masculine, and also has a lot of alt-right and very voicing people, so a public poll over a feminist matter is not exactly the best way to solve this specific issue

[joe-mcnuggets]

@saverio-kantox

Indeed in a democracy public polls are anonymous, to protect the identity of people that in one way or another feel threatened by disclosing their opinion to the public.

Don't tell me that you can't organize an anonymous poll.

In a community of any worth, there is protection of the weak. This means also that a change that goes over to protect the weak is to be done, even if it is a little discomfort for the majority

Sounds like "we'll break your builds and remove cultural references to protect people, who don't want to educate themselves". And where's the line beyond which "protecting of the weak" becomes "dictatorship of any loud(or trendy) minority"?

The tech community is predominantly masculine, and also has a lot of alt-right and very voicing people, so a public poll over a feminist matter is not exactly the best way to solve this specific issue

Ok, FactoryGirl's community is masculine and nazi-adoring, so we don't deserve a right of free choice, I heard you.

[mjankowski]

Thanks everyone for the feedback. Once again, we're sorry for the frustration we caused with the gem release missteps.

We'll update this issue when the blog post is live, hang tight until then.

[mjankowski]

Blog post now up: https://robots.thoughtbot.com/factory_bot