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I suppose the theory is that fear of embarrassment makes people put in extra effort before submitting anything. This would reduce the time spent politely reject
by ponyfleisch 8y ago
I suppose the theory is that fear of embarrassment makes people put in extra effort before submitting anything. This would reduce the time spent politely rejecting submissions.
Intuitively, in my opinion this sounds plausible.
- pell 8y agoI think fear also hinders innovation as it hinders thought and disruption at times. I am sure, to a certain degree, it's good to be fearful and understand the stakes but I doubt this has to be something maintained through verbal attacks, public humiliation and other forms of _abuse_. I like Linus Torvalds. It's hard not to have a soft spot for him when his counterparts always were Bill Gates and Steve Jobs (for the longest time). But for this, there is no necessity of asshole-behavior.
- johnny22 8y agoIs that the "At least he's our asshole". That kinda makes sense to me.
- johnny22 8y agoIntuitively? have you ever contributed code to a FOSS project? My experience is that I try to write the best code I can to be accepted, because I care about quality. The embarassment (my feels) is gonna be because my code wasn't up to snuff. I choose not to contribute to projects in which the feedback might be based on feels (vitriol) rather than reals (the code quality)