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Just from reading the blog posts, it seems like this is a bit of an overreaction to some mild criticism of a mediocre blog post. Then I looked at Twitter. If
by powera 14y ago
Just from reading the blog posts, it seems like this is a bit of an overreaction to some mild criticism of a mediocre blog post.
Then I looked at Twitter.
If there are multiple people tweeting basically "you're stupid" dozens of times ( https://twitter.com/kendall https://twitter.com/kendall seems particularly egregious) it's not being in any way productive, it's a bunch of people being assholes and claiming "you're sexist" as a shield against anything they might do.
I don't know if it's something specific to Twitter, or just making people "celebrities" who aren't ready to handle the stupid comments that come with it.
- rntz 14y agoIt's twitter-endemic, if not twitter-specific, for the simple reason that it's hard to express a coherent, well-justified argument in 140 characters, but easy to express anger. The anger might even be justified; just don't go to twitter expecting to read the justification.
- mcantelon 14y agoThe thing to do is just tweet that you're going to be taking a vacation from Twitter for a few days. By then the tweets will have died down.
- bsg75 14y ago> https://twitter.com/kendall https://twitter.com/kendall seems particularly egregious Who just coincidentally works on a product which may (or not) be in commercial competition, and could just possibly be attempting to gain some measure of the internet fame his target has earned in actually producing something of value to many developers. I can't help but notice in all of the vitriol, the loudest are those who appear to do little more that talk (on the internet). (A completely unscientific analysis)