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Back in the day, Linux (and other FOSS projects) where for geeks only. You invested your free time on it because you liked it. People could be aggressive agains

Back in the day, Linux (and other FOSS projects) where for geeks only. You invested your free time on it because you liked it. People could be aggressive against you, you would leave and nobody gave a shit. Modern FOSS projects such as Linux or Rust are more than something for geeks. Lot of people gets paid to work on it. For many, being an expert in an important project is a career, not just a job. People are "forced" to spend a lot of time working with the community. And modern open source projects just have far more people than they used to. I guess that the standards have been raised. That said, I think you are completely right on this point: > some snowflakes like to believe that everyone contributes equally This is absolutely right. The people who are being accused of being nasty are the _core_ team. Rust just can not exist without them. Unfortunately, they seem to be abusing their power.

kelnos 5y ago
I think you're missing the point. Whether or not everyone contributes equally is irrelevant (and I agree with you that all contributions are far from equal). But no one deserves to be treated with disrespect, and no one deserves a pass for treating others poorly just because their technical contributions are rated so highly. If a project can't survive without its toxic people, then perhaps it shouldn't survive.
CRConrad 5y ago
> The people who are being accused of being nasty are the _core_ team. As I read it, the people who are being accused of being nasty are, for all we know, perhaps just one of the core team. The rest of the core team are being accused of, at most, not being willing (and/or able?) to do, or let the mod team do, something about that.