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The Jia Tan character was never rude. If you make rudeness the thing that throws a red flag, then ‘nice’ fake accounts will bubble up to do the pressuring.
by apantel 3y ago
The Jia Tan character was never rude. If you make rudeness the thing that throws a red flag, then ‘nice’ fake accounts will bubble up to do the pressuring.
- sebstefan 3y agoPressuring the maintainer is already rude in itself and being polite about it won't help them If they want things done quickly they can do it themselves
- ant6n 3y ago> If they want things done quickly they can do it themselves I mean they kind of did. And that was the problem.
- genter 3y agoThe assumption is that the group behind this attack had sock puppets that were rude to Lasse Collin, to wear him down, and then Jia Tan swept in as the savior.
- patmorgan23 3y agoJia Tan wasn't rude, but the original maintainer Laser Collin probably wouldn't have been as burned out and willing to give responsibility to them if the community wasn't as rude and demanding of someone doing free work for them. I think we need to start paying more of these open source maintainers and have some staff/volunteers that can help them manage their git hub issue volume.
- orthecreedence 3y agoThe article covers that those rude accounts may have been sybils of the attacker to create pressure. It's effectively good cop/bad cop for open source.
- berniedurfee 3y agoThere was definitely good cop/bad cop going on. That’s a really powerful psychological tool.