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Agree. I'm active in some communities that are unfriendly if not outright hostile towards newcomers. I'm sure they lose a good amount of potential contributers
by fxtentacle 5y ago
Agree. I'm active in some communities that are unfriendly if not outright hostile towards newcomers.
I'm sure they lose a good amount of potential contributers that way. But the few newcomers that remain are highly motivated.
- pteraspidomorph 5y agoNow that I think of it, that's also my experience. If I really need a project to do whatever (and can't implement the feature myself), I shut up, let the horrible attitude wash over me and put hours of effort into testing and providing helpful information, and maintainers usually mellow out eventually. If I hadn't done all of that work, the maintainer would have had to do it. Sure, they're much better equipped to do it and can probably do it in a quarter of the time it takes me, but multiplied by fifty tickets... Oof.