On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 16, 2014 20:11 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566)
In reply to: On the sickness of our community by zdzichu
Parent article: On the sickness of our community

I recall seeing a Gentoo package maintainer getting some quite nasty verbal abuse from LP and his lackeys in an IRC channel in response to legitimate technical questions, and I'd be happy to link the page if not for the fact said developer's blog archives seem to cut off at 2012.

There's evidently been no attempt to fix the underlying bad attitude in the few years that've passed. What surprises me is that it's taken this long for a major backlash to happen.

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On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 16, 2014 20:16 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

Yet another unsubstantiated and unverifiable claim.

On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 17, 2014 17:06 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (1 responses)

I retract that claim; after several hours of digging through archive sites it wasn't LP who made that specific attack after all, but De Icaza and the Mono crowd. Their similarity must've confused me. Apologies go to those whom it's due.

On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 17, 2014 18:16 UTC (Fri) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]

The retraction is a good first step. But I require more from you.

I require that you also affirm that you will defend "LP and his lackeys" as you call them in the future if you see anyone making a similar unsubstantiated claim of abuse and actively deflate the meme that "LP and his lackeys" are extraordinarily abusive. If you can't affirm to do that in the future and if you choose to stand silently by while the meme continues to spread you are still complicit in helping spread it with your mistake here. It's like lighting a fire and saying you're sorry, admitting you set the fire but still standing there watching it burn a house down. Time for you to pick up a bucket of water and do help put the fire out.

Oh and stop calling other developers lackeys. That'd be pretty good too.