Community faults

Posted Sep 27, 2007 0:11 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Community faults by nix
Parent article: My Fabulous Geek Career (O'ReillyNet)

Exactly.

Brutal honesty is one thing....

But much more typically I see veiled and outright insults, insinuations, belittling, and just other silly pointless crap that is completely devoid of any techincal or informational merit.

Just a bunch of people trying to prop up failing egos.

We are all guitly of getting things personal, but it amazes me how often people don't even realise what they are saying.

One thing to keep in mind that it's VERY possible to be completely and 100% right on a technical point AND still be a completely and total asshole.

In otherwords...

Just because a person is right doesn't mean that person isn't also a prick.