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It would help to abandon platforms that encourage harassment. Or if such platforms actually bothered to fix their design. It doesn't matter if the encouragement
by marcosdumay 2y ago
It would help to abandon platforms that encourage harassment. Or if such platforms actually bothered to fix their design. It doesn't matter if the encouragement is purposeful or by accident.
Have you noticed that those discussions weren't common before people adopted GitHub?
- vortegne 2y agoThey were common, just not as visible. If you knew which mailing lists to be on, you saw all the same stuff.
- LtWorf 2y agoIt was much less. Github is a social media, it has the like/dislike button
- akira2501 2y agoIf you used those mailing lists often enough you had a kill file so you could filter out those who were intentionally disruptive. I think the negative contribution from Github is the "gamification" of development. Stars, in particular, are emblematic of this problem, as it grants a measure of "apparent quality" yet it's not safeguarded in any way at all so now it just measures "apparent popularity." The mechanisms you have to employ to be popular are almost diametrically opposed to those you have to do to write quality code.
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- samatman 2y agoUsenet was much worse, the way I remember it.
- pc86 2y ago> Have you noticed that those discussions weren't common before people adopted GitHub? This is objectively not true.