Community faults

Community faults

Posted Sep 26, 2007 9:26 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Community faults by esr
Parent article: My Fabulous Geek Career (O'ReillyNet)

Also, human beings *do* have feelings and forgetting that they do is a very good way to destroy a project. (You know this, hell, you've written articles about it!)

People who can't interact with other people without offending them inadvertently should watch how everyone else does it until they can. (It's quite possible: I did it, although it took me five to seven years before I had enough confidence in my ability not to offend to speak up at all. It's still not perfect, but what is?)

People who can't interact with other people without offending them *intentionally* are a different matter and should probably clean up their act before they do the same thing in real life and it lands them in major trouble.

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