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I'm not familiar with what lead to this post but lots of projects on GH do feel like social clubs. It would be interesting if GH had a feature that, when enabled, would make all comments on a project's PR/issue tracker anonymous so that they can be considered purely on their technical merit.

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You can still recognise people behind the words. I can usually tell who wrote a particular line of code within the projects I work with.

It is disingenous to pretend that writing software is a pure robotic activity that can be separated from its humanity.

There used to be a concept called "professionalism" where people didn't let their personal cultural biases crowd out contributors, and people applied their humanity problem at hand at work, and engaged in unrelated conversations on breaks and after work, not disrupting people who are working on the project.

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