Commits on Nov 5, 2014

1. Clarify and strengthen language. …

   I intended to make the policy clearer on certain details and use more
   powerful language. I also made certain parts of the policy focus more
   on actions than intent because actions are a more concrete, less
   ambiguous, and less abusable type of language to base a policy off
   of. I also edited some parts to add the adjective off-topic to the
   rules about sexual content because certain topics require discussion
   of sexual issues. As well, I switched a few parts to use abuse instead
   of harassment because it's shorter and more impactful and also because
   of semantic satiation.
   
   I think the biggest change was in:
   
   <p>Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender,
   age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size,
   race, religion, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate
   intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording,
   sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical
   contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.</p>
   
   where I removed a whole list of things that offensive verbal comments
   could be about, reordered actions by approximate seriousness and added
   a few types of things that harassment could be. I removed the list of
   possible offensive topics because I felt that the list could never be
   complete and that the actual topic itself is beside the point, the
   reason why offensive comments are bad is not because they hurt
   people's feelings but because the language is not intended to serve a
   constructive purpose but only to hurt people and also because the
   comments are off-topic for the conference.

   

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