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by esyir
1841 days ago
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I feel the opposite though. Anonymity is key, especially if you're not well protected. You can be the nicest guy in the world, but if you ever step out of line once and the wrong person decides that you're his target today, there you go. |
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To be honest, what I do does not work for the vast majority of people, and even though I do it, it does make me nervous.
But one big reason I still do it is that the current culture thinks I am a terrible person anyway, so they are not going to think worse of me.
I have already been the target of collective vitriol once, when I spoke against one particular Open Source project rewriting in Rust.
So I have already weathered such a storm, which means I can do it again if I become someone's new target of the week.
Can everyone do that? I don't think so. So yeah, you are absolutely 100% correct.
(Side note: that experience with Rust has pushed me away from Rust, period. I don't want to be part of a community that does that. I know the Rust maintainers don't like that culture either, so I don't blame them. But it still exists, so Rust doesn't seem like a community that would want me in it.)