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Workplaces != voluntary organisations. You could lose your livelihood and sink into crippling debt if you were fired - not so much if you're kicked out of a com
by vertex-four 8y ago
Workplaces != voluntary organisations. You could lose your livelihood and sink into crippling debt if you were fired - not so much if you're kicked out of a community. And, of course, people generally pick communities that they'd like to be part of and which contain people they generally agree with, whereas people are often willing to put up with a hell of a lot in return for money.
You do, in fact, need active community management in order to convince some minority of people to treat each other with respect if there's otherwise no downside to failing to do so.
- magduf 8y agoI'm not so sure about your assertions here. AFAICT, the people I've worked with who are conservatives just generally wouldn't be that interested in working on a volunteer software project like that. They'd rather spend their free time with their fishing boat or something. I don't think they really care enough about software to get involved in a FOSS project. So I think FOSS projects may attract personalities that are more extreme than typical developers, with more personality defects. But I completely agree about needing active management. I think this is true for any organization. You're just not going to get good results if you don't have some kind of leadership keeping people in line.