Let the community off-the-hook

Posted Oct 9, 2014 13:10 UTC (Thu) by duffy (guest, #31787)
In reply to: Let the community off-the-hook by alex
Parent article: On the sickness of our community

+1 My thoughts are exactly the same - thank you for this comment.

to post comments

Let the community off-the-hook

Posted Oct 13, 2014 23:21 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

Yes, +2. The situation reminds me of Warden's Why nerd culture must die:

I’d always hoped we were more virtuous than the mainstream, but it turns out we just didn’t have enough power to cause much harm. Our ingrained sense of victimization has become a perverse justification for bullying. That’s why I’m calling time on nerd culture. It’s done wonderful things, but these days it’s like a crawling horror of a legacy codebase so riddled with problems the only rational decision is to deprecate it and build something better.

Bullying indeed.