[relistan]

Hacker News: “It’s unfair the burden put on maintainers of the core pillars of open source software. Show some respect for the maintainers, and do your best to contribute.”

… little changes …

Also Hacker News: “I have the right to tell you how to manage the project that you created and have maintained for 30+ years, because I feel very self-righteous about AI and code quality!”

[marginalia_nu]

As HN consists of more than two people, it is home to multiple contradictory opinions. Furthermore, both points may be valid. As a user you might want working software, and as an open source maintainer, you aren't beholden to what the users want.

[relistan]

Sure, but you cannot deny the hypocritical swarm behavior, which is the point.

[customguy]

> the hypocritical swarm behavior, which is the point.

That's exactly why that "point" is inherently nonsense. It's right there, you just wrote it yourself. If you lump people together "as a group", and some of them have different opinions on something, that doesn't make any of them a hypocrite. And the group can't be hypocritical either, because it's just your abstraction, not an actual group that communicates and coordinates and decides what "official" stance to take on certain issues.

[marginalia_nu]

The "swarm behavior" is mostly an illusion created by your mind. HN is just a bunch of people and bots.

[relistan]

Yep a bunch of people who often exhibit swarm behavior.

[cyclopeanutopia]

By this logic, will you just start calling yourself "hypocritical Karl", as you clearly belong here? ;)

[relistan]

Are you in middle school?

[nelsonfigueroa]

Goomba fallacy https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy