Inappropriate content in a php.net published comment. Is there a policy?

From: Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:59:29 +0000
Subject: Inappropriate content in a php.net published comment. Is there a policy?
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Hello, I hope this is the correct venue for this type of complaint. It seemed the best of the available options. The comment at url http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.php#108744contains an inappropriate line (and I'm not talking about the lack of instantiation): <?php $youTrickyLittleBitch->setMyVar('You like that?'); ?> I have exchanged e-mails with the author, Wesley ( wbcarts@juno.com ) and he has confirmed that the reference to sexualized violence was completely intentional: *You are correct by saying it sounds rapey -- that was the intention -- > because there is a lot of code that does nothing but.* This is completely unacceptable. No one should have to deal with casual references to sexual degradation while attempting to read PHP documentation. If there's not currently a site-wide policy against this sort of thing, there needs to be. Please change the class name and string value in this example to something less breezily disrespectful, and let me know what measures are going to be taken to prevent this sort of problem in the future. Thank you, Beth Binkovitz

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