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It's certainly not Twitter's fault. Lately, the open source community's underbelly has been exposed. "But open source is right and we are the good guys?!", or.

It's certainly not Twitter's fault. Lately, the open source community's underbelly has been exposed. "But open source is right and we are the good guys?!", or... "But I know those guys and they are usually really cool!" We want to categorize people as being bad or good, and it messes with our brain when we think we may have to re-categorize. It's more useful to realize that we all have a capacity to do both good and harm. It's also more useful to judge ourselves than others. Recognizing the need to change is the beginning. I know that I need Outside help to maximize the good and minimize the bad that I am capable of.

brazzy 14y ago
Yes, it's partially Twitter's fault. Enforced brevity in a popularity contest setting encourages smartassery and discourages (or makes impossible) nuanced expression.
- anu_gupta 14y ago
  Twitter isn't coming up to anyone, twisting their arm and telling them to be a dick. Lots of people manage to use Twitter without coming across like assholes. If one feels that 140 characters isn't sufficient to correctly represent one's nuanced thoughts, then don't tweet.
  - SimHacker 14y ago
    And that's why I don't tweet!
    - jasonm23 14y ago
      Where's the button to give you 10million upvotes?
    - Evbn 14y ago
      And yet you expressed your idea in under 140 characters.
  - brazzy 14y ago
    That's a main reason why I don't. But I gather that in some circles the social pressure to tweet is not much short of arm twisting. I doubt you could find many twitter accounts (barring commercial PR stuff) whose history is entirely free of rudeness.
mpyne 14y ago
> Lately, the open source community's There is no "open source hivemind" so please don't disparage the millions of open source coders who will never make the frontpage of HN by lumping the entire conglomerate into one community.
- timinman 14y ago
  Sorry, I didn't mean to disparage open source or people creating open source software - I love it!. The point I was trying to make was that even people with good ideals are fallible.

brazzy 14y ago

Yes, it's partially Twitter's fault. Enforced brevity in a popularity contest setting encourages smartassery and discourages (or makes impossible) nuanced expression.

anu_gupta 14y ago
Twitter isn't coming up to anyone, twisting their arm and telling them to be a dick. Lots of people manage to use Twitter without coming across like assholes. If one feels that 140 characters isn't sufficient to correctly represent one's nuanced thoughts, then don't tweet.
- SimHacker 14y ago
  And that's why I don't tweet!
  - jasonm23 14y ago
    Where's the button to give you 10million upvotes?
  - Evbn 14y ago
    And yet you expressed your idea in under 140 characters.
- brazzy 14y ago
  That's a main reason why I don't. But I gather that in some circles the social pressure to tweet is not much short of arm twisting. I doubt you could find many twitter accounts (barring commercial PR stuff) whose history is entirely free of rudeness.

mpyne 14y ago

> Lately, the open source community's There is no "open source hivemind" so please don't disparage the millions of open source coders who will never make the frontpage of HN by lumping the entire conglomerate into one community.

timinman 14y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to disparage open source or people creating open source software - I love it!. The point I was trying to make was that even people with good ideals are fallible.