Fog Heen: Resigning as a Debian systemd maintainer [LWN.net]

Fog Heen: Resigning as a Debian systemd maintainer

Posted Nov 18, 2014 0:12 UTC (Tue) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
In reply to: Fog Heen: Resigning as a Debian systemd maintainer by tjc
Parent article: Fog Heen: Resigning as a Debian systemd maintainer

It only takes a handful of bullies to make the environment really miserable if they put some real effort into it. This seems to be one of the big recent lessons of the internet; a relatively small number of trolls are enough to drive people off the internet if they're willing to be sufficiently awful.

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Fog Heen: Resigning as a Debian systemd maintainer

Posted Nov 18, 2014 8:05 UTC (Tue) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]

> It only takes a handful of bullies to make the environment really miserable if they put some real effort into it. This seems to be one of the big recent lessons of the internet

A recent case study from Peter Watts:

http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=5370

[And the person mentioned there is/was just *one* person. The sad thing is that even just one person behaving like this accretes a group of abusive minions who look up to their "leader".]