| What is going on in this thread? "Just don't come here" "Just turn off your notifications" "But Angular 2/Babel 6/Literally all of Javascript really does suck" "Developers can't take criticism" "Open source communities are bubbles" "Every community is like this" "All people are like this" "Sorry, but..." Didn't our mommas teach us that when you apologize, you actually apologize? Even if you and I personally didn't do anything like this, this man here says there's a problem. Let's work on the problem. When you use an open source project, you pay for it with your contributions to the project, whether those are code commits, bug reports, or just general feedback - and maybe that feedback doesn't need to be sunshine and roses all the time, but it should at least be concrete. Venting feels good, but it doesn't help anyone, not even yourself [0][1]. The least we can do is to stop normalizing knee-jerk, entitled, ad-hominem anger in our public fora. Because that's what this article is asking for. No one is saying we need to go out and fix all of human nature for a weekend project. We just have to stop upvoting rudeness. Is that so controversial? [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23249241
[1] http://psp.sagepub.com/content/28/6/724.abstract |
Coo. But there's one of me, and 7 billion people that have - at least once - been more of an asshole than warranted.
It's possible to simultaneously promote the change you want to see in the world, and promote coping strategies for the transitional period.
The idea that we shouldn't need to deal with the status quo, but expect the world to conform to our whims instantly is unreasonable.