Update: I retract the post Be Professional or Be Edgy: How Context Can Keep Everyone Happy of April 27, 2009 in full. It covered an issue that started as a Ruby-related thing, but quickly became focused on the behavior and sentiments of some Rails communities. Ruby Inside is a Ruby news blog; therefore my editorial was unuseful and made for dull reading. I apologize for falling into such boring territory.
If you have no idea what I'm going on about and have time to kill, go here or here or visit one of the several threads on RubyFlow about it.
Regardless, I am leaving the comments here for the public record as they have been referenced elsewhere.