Community faults

Posted Sep 28, 2007 0:57 UTC (Fri) by chromatic (guest, #26207)
In reply to: Community faults by peace
Parent article: My Fabulous Geek Career (O'ReillyNet)

If your submitting to a project and can't get something as trivial as coding style right than you probably deserve to be ridiculed.

No, you don't. Why do you suggest that ridiculing someone trying to help you in good faith is ever a good idea?

I'm one of the first people, when someone starts trying to heap abuse on contributors, to stand up and say "Go away!" but abusing potential contributors who've already made the effort to contribute is unacceptable, even mean.