[icebraining]

TL;DR - The internet is full of ungrateful dicks.

It often bothers me the vitriol that open source projects get for not fixing some bug or even add some feature that certain user considers important. But I don't see a best course of action than simply ignoring them. There's no upside to wasting your time and mental energy replying.

(By the way, I agree with the author. I just think this post is preaching to the choir. The targeted people will just disregard it).

[tikhonj]

Any large community is going to accumulate some unfortunate people. These people then stand out because they tend to be loud and annoying. Additionally, people are apparently more likely to criticize something free!

So I agree entirely that the best option is ignoring them. If you're a really nice person--and some are--then you would ignore the tone of a reasonable request and do it anyhow. Now, you don't have to, but that's the beauty of open source: freedom. You never have to do anything.

I suspect that this post is the result of a little bit of undeserved, subconscious guilt. I know that when I feel guilty despite clearly being right, I become defensive; I could certainly imagine a similar reaction here. Or it could be something else entirely.

[christkv]

A name and shame site for dicksinopensource.com would be nice to nominate the biggest troll of the year.