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How does this explain communities where there is a lot of rudeness and bullying, and yet the projects themselves are successful? Are those projects successes d
by deadprogram 11y ago
How does this explain communities where there is a lot of rudeness and bullying, and yet the projects themselves are successful?
Are those projects successes despite their manners?
- this_user 11y agoIf you had bothered to at least read the abstract, you might have found that there is no claim that projects like that will always fail, as you insinuate. The authors merely claim that politeness is positively correlated with with a number of key metrics like time required to fix an issue and duration of project participation.
- garrettheaver 11y agoSpeaking of being polite...
- strictnein 11y agoNext study: does politeness in HN responses result in greater upvotes?
- eropple 11y agoI tend to draw a distinction between "impoliteness on its own" and "impoliteness in response to impoliteness". Not reading TFA is, to me, the latter, and a mildly sharpish response isn't the worst thing in the world.