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Question: why people seem to be so affected by unpleasant contributors? I mean, no one forces these people to use an open source project and no one has an oblig
by ManlyBread 10y ago
Question: why people seem to be so affected by unpleasant contributors? I mean, no one forces these people to use an open source project and no one has an obligation to support it at all, yet I see articles like this popping up pretty often. What's the harm in ignoring the unpleasant contributors and focusing on the ones that provide actual value to the project?
- zelos 10y agoIt's hard to block them out. You can tell yourself to ignore them, but (in my minimal experience at least) it's near impossible to actually do so completely.
- beachstartup 10y agobecause after working all day it takes a mental toll to read and process some idiot lashing out at you for their own intellectual shortcomings.
- Ocerge 10y agoIn the end we're all human. You can try to ignore it, but just scanning the text is probably enough to raise the blood pressure of most people, even if you immediately block the offender. You still read it and it was still stressful.
- x0x0 10y agoBecause you get a stream of rude, entitled, hostile people either directly emailing you or pushing notifications into your email. All for a bunch of unpaid work.
- shados 10y agoIt gets really hard sometimes. Take the following issue as an example: https://github.com/reactjs/redux/issues/1528 https://github.com/reactjs/redux/issues/1528 Later in the issue, someone jumps in the discussion and trashed all over everyone. That same person hopped on every blog post, ever medium post, every discussion, gitter, everything. It was bordering on harassment. I don't maintain that project so it's easy for me to ignore, but for the people involved, it must have been pretty rough.