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by pekk 4609 days ago
What are you supposed to do if jerks join your community? Excommunicate them?
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teraflop 4609 days ago
There's a talk called "How to Protect Your Open Source Project From Poisonous People" [1] that offers some suggestions.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/vishnu/how-to-protect-yourhow-to-p...

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neeee 4609 days ago
Video: http://youtu.be/Q52kFL8zVoM
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sylvinus 4609 days ago
Messing up with git and apologizing publicly is hardly being a jerk IMHO.
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jacalata 4609 days ago
He means none of them are being jerks - for instance a community of jerks might have responded to the announcement of a pretty inconvenient mistake by abusing the guy who made the mistake.
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Semaphor 4609 days ago
To clear it up, it was a question wondering how one would keep a community as jerk-free as the one they seem to have right now.
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sylvinus 4606 days ago
right, thanks!
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kyberias 4609 days ago
Ummmm... I'm pretty sure that was not implied.
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