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Would you be empathetic to a jerk who keeps insulting you? I don't get where the big issue is, a guy smugly makes a suggestion, the devs argue with it and poin
by curiousgal 4y ago
Would you be empathetic to a jerk who keeps insulting you?
I don't get where the big issue is, a guy smugly makes a suggestion, the devs argue with it and point out that his tone isn't helping. The guy turns out to be right, the devs implement his suggestion. They don't have a history of thanking people by name so they make a vague attribution. Guy continues to be hostile against them, dev calls him out and now he's the asshole? Come on.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago> They don't have a history of thanking people by name That's... Not better? EDIT: Actually, I thought of a way for that to be better, but it still doesn't make anything better here. If MS is used to working with b2b, where a customer comes in with a bug and MS fixes it and pushes the fix out, there it could be reasonable to not give credit; I don't condone it but it does match the culture there. The problem is that this very much does not translate to FOSS and/or public collaboration with individuals, where there very much is a culture of sharing credit.
- ineedasername 4y agoMS: "In our defense, our reflexive response it to never give other people credit for their ideas, so you can see how it's not really our fault, it's just instinct."