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Linus Torvalds and Others on Community Burnout
- j_baker 15y agoThank you for posting something about Linus that isn't him insulting someone or giving an opinion about some inane and obscure subject ("Linus Torvalds on Hot Dogs: Mustard or Ketchup?"). That said, my experience with community burnout is that it tends to be infectious: someone burns out and turns into a total asshole, which causes someone else to burn out, which causes someone else to burn out. I've seen projects die this way (especially when one of those people is the project's maintainer).
- shabble 15y agoIt's a sufficiently well-observed situation that Freenode even mentions it in their guidelines: http://freenode.net/channel_guidelines.shtml#supportburnout http://freenode.net/channel_guidelines.shtml#supportburnout