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Chazore said:

Well seems Godot shit the bed recently.

Their community manager went rogue and just went off on one, blocking people left and right and calling people that don't agree with their pol view as "evil"/"vermin". Their CM even blocked Titanium-level backers for the engine as well...

See this is why you don't hire people who are radical/politically charged, because chances are so sky high that they will let themselves be heavily influenced by those views to a point where they will act emotionally and do so without acting logically.

Personally I just wish companies would stop hiring ppl who are so heavily vested in the already toxic culture war crap. It's ruining games and setting up a bad precedent in general (not only for gaming, but the rest of the world, and I say this as a Bi guy).

My impression is that Godot has been supportive of minorities for at least a good while now, or at least that's what I remember seeing on Twitter. My impression as someone that's no fan of the way the rights of women, minorities etc. are often advanced these days is that Godot has generally been very reasonable about their stance too.

If you're unhappy with what Godot is doing, you shouldn't have jumped aboard in the first place, but if you did and expect the situation to change, well, shame on you really, backer or not. This particular drama just seems stupid to me at a fairly quick glance. If you want to benefit from the free work provided by others, you've got to play by their rules too, and if you're volunteering to pay for that work, just take your money elsewhere. If you think you've invaluable, you can try to negotiate, but if you choose to go whine and pressure on social media, that doesn't exactly sound like a reasonable approach to me.

Then again, much of the drama probably comes from people that aren't even potential users of Godot, let alone actual users. I'm not sure I'd call such opinions at all relevant, even though they might get high visibility.

Also, social media was largely a mistake. For some reason, humans seem really bad at interacting via social media.