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Oh no, my internet points!
by wffurr 6y ago
Oh no, my internet points!
- nextaccountic 6y agoThose are unpaid volunteers. If Mozilla robs them attribution for work (and yes this is work), then what's left? Specially now that they fired every single paid worker.
- animal_spirits 6y agoMozilla never promised them any pay in the first place
- icebraining 6y agoIt did promise to attribute the contributions, since they are licensed under CC BY-SA.
- aiisjustanif 6y agoIt’s not about payment it’s about legal open source practices that help foster and protect the community.
- Aeolun 6y ago> Those are unpaid volunteers. If Mozilla robs them attribution for work (and yes this is work), then what's left? Warm fuzzy feelings? The knowledge that people read your article thousands of times every day? Honestly, while I agree that it’s a bit sad to lose the attribution, I find it hard to be sympathetic with people who get salty over losing internet points.
- aiisjustanif 6y agoThat’s so disingenuous. It’s a knowledge base. It’s well designed documentation. Something that many folks in IT lack at times. Showing people you can properly document knowledge in a collaborative way helps you get hired.
- pygy_ 6y agoThe ability to write good tech documentation is a valuable skill. I understand the GP was upset when they lost an easy way to signal they have it to potential employers.
- Godel_unicode 6y agoIt's mean to make fun of people for caring about things. If people are proud of work they've done, why shouldn't they be upset when they get no credit?
- pedroma 6y agoI assume they could've put it on their resume and gotten something from that. Now it's just baseless claims.
- Aeolun 6y agoIf your potential employer is so skeptical of you that they don’t trust you when you tell them you wrote certain articles on MDN, they’re not likely to hire you in the first place.
- aiisjustanif 6y agoIf you reference work you do in your own time, I will go look at it. It’s unfair that MDN doesn’t easily make note that their contributions may have been lost to the ether.
- Jtsummers 6y agoVolunteer work like that that results in visible, attributable output can become part of your resume/portfolio. You can point people to it and say, "Here are a set of articles representative of my work." Much like open source contributions (if you're not the primary maintainer of anything open source).
- wffurr 6y agoOh no, my internet points!