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Years of work can still amount to absolute crap. You're not shielded from criticism because your software is free.
by pikzen 10y ago
Years of work can still amount to absolute crap. You're not shielded from criticism because your software is free.
- sidcool 10y agoThere's difference between arrogant criticism and constructive feedback. Most of those who rudely criticize are those who rarely create anything. Instead they are mostly into commentaries.
- pikzen 10y agoAaaaah, the good old "you shouldn't critize if you haven't created anything argument". Easily applied to "you can't criticize music if you haven't recorded an album" and "Why are you criticizing this movie you haven't even filmed a blockbuster". Commentaries have a valid point, with or without creation.
- sidcool 10y agoI disagree. I can dislike a song. If I am able to talk to the singer/musician, I won't say 'You Suck', that would be rude.
- gwn7 10y agoI think that you are focusing on "rudeness" too much. This is the internet. And this is a (mainly) hacker community -who are not known for their politeness-, and good engineering matters for hackers. (as it should) I think that this is the perfect medium for rudeness. The whole reason people post their projects here is to get criticism of any kind. If one is disheartened because of a rude comment, one needs to grow up. One needs to learn how to deal with comments; learn to decide on which ones to take seriously and which ones to not.. The good thing about the internet is that most of us are anonymous here. So you can not judge my comments based on my identity (or my history, e.g. what i have done). Nor you can punch me in the face for being rude or something. The thing you get in exchange is honesty (hopefully). This is healthy. Let's embrace it, and keep politeness and politics for face-to-face meetings.
- a_t48 10y ago> And this is a (mainly) hacker community -who are not known for their politeness- And you hold this up as an ideal rather than something we can improve upon? Tone matters. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity. If you want to act differently than in real life, this is not the site.
- gwn7 10y agoGood point. I might be wrong. I was trying to say that everybody needs to learn how to deal with rude people/comments. This does not justify the bad tone nonetheless.
- dang 10y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13737495 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13737495 and marked it off-topic.