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The article would have been fine with a theme/title closer to "things that annoy me". I agree with a lot of points raised, but not with gatekeeping. I'll die on

The article would have been fine with a theme/title closer to "things that annoy me". I agree with a lot of points raised, but not with gatekeeping. I'll die on the hill that gatekeeping is just wrong, anywhere, in any circumstance, and especially in a field that has open in its name. Open source means open first, source secondary. So I strongly disagree with the "do. not. publish." point. Let the kids publish. Let them cringe 10-20 years from now when they see their first projects. We did with ours. My first geocities site had all the "slop" markers (triangle warning gifs, page under construction, etc), but I still laughed when I found some print-screens I had saved from that era, years later. Writing slop and publishing slop is a rite of passage. When I see it, I don't have to like it, and I can avoid it. But I would never tell anyone "don't publish". Go ahead, there's plenty of bits on them github servers. Go nuts.

RangerScience 1y ago
Maybe it’s a semantics thing (if we have different definitions for “gate keeping”)… but, I’ll fight you on that hill: Gate keeping is one of the primary means by which a community defines itself; it both requires that the community have some idea of “us/not us”, either deliberately and explicitly, or incidentally; and it is a primary means of implementing that identity. It can also be a means for induction; the “gate” is one of the best places to introduce someone to the cultural norms, etc, of the community they’re entering. Related, it can also be a way to catch people who’ll have a bad time in that community, even if they’d otherwise be welcomed. It can be done well and it can be done poorly. Positive examples that come to mind: - New Zealand has aggressive biological border control - Costume parties that turn you away at the door if you’re not in costume - Men’s and women’s circles - Everyone on the boat has to know how to sail - Everyone on the ski trip has to WANT to be in winter weather

RangerScience 1y ago

Maybe it’s a semantics thing (if we have different definitions for “gate keeping”)… but, I’ll fight you on that hill: Gate keeping is one of the primary means by which a community defines itself; it both requires that the community have some idea of “us/not us”, either deliberately and explicitly, or incidentally; and it is a primary means of implementing that identity. It can also be a means for induction; the “gate” is one of the best places to introduce someone to the cultural norms, etc, of the community they’re entering. Related, it can also be a way to catch people who’ll have a bad time in that community, even if they’d otherwise be welcomed. It can be done well and it can be done poorly. Positive examples that come to mind: - New Zealand has aggressive biological border control - Costume parties that turn you away at the door if you’re not in costume - Men’s and women’s circles - Everyone on the boat has to know how to sail - Everyone on the ski trip has to WANT to be in winter weather