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by orra 1906 days ago
Additionally, an asshole can drive away multiple people.

Even if an asshole is three times as productive as your typical contributor, they can easily drive away ten people.

Not to mention the morality of pedestalling creeps.

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Except that these 10 people never materialize if someone who has made 10 "wrong" statements in a decade is canceled.

Which is why cancel tactics are employed only in mature code bases, and the 10 people who do materialize are power hungry bureaucrats who associate themselves with the work of others for financial gain.