Well, this is embarrassing for LWN readership

Posted Dec 28, 2021 16:16 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Well, this is embarrassing for LWN readership by mattdm
Parent article: The Linux Foundation's report on diversity, equity, and inclusion in open source

> The overwhelming reaction?

This sounds like comments here (or anywhere else) are representative of something. They're not. Here comments don't even have a number of "likes" to feed that universal misconception.

> It's exhausting.

I'm sure it is. Genuine question: why make it even more exhausting by reading the comments here? I sincerely hope reading these is not part of your job or something?

The Internet has given all soapbox preachers the extraordinary power to reach the entire world. It will be progress only after most of us learn to actively ignore them. It may take a generation or two but I'm confident we'll get there.

BTW this is why many "social" platforms have no "dislike" counter. Youtube just removed theirs. Don't dislike: spend your time better and like something else.

https://xkcd.com/386/

Well, this is embarrassing for LWN readership

Posted Jan 4, 2022 15:59 UTC (Tue) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link] (2 responses)

> > It's exhausting.

> I'm sure it is. Genuine question: why make it even more exhausting by reading the comments here? I sincerely hope reading these is not part of your job or something?

On that topic, I took a couple of years from reading LWN, on the grounds that it's *so awful* that it was severely harming my mental health and progressively making me a worse person online as a consequence.

Underneath it all there is enough valuable information here that it seemed worth tapering back on to once I was in a better place, but it's by far the most unpleasant part of the web that I interact with on a regular basis, so I know to Avoid if I'm already stressed.

Well, this is embarrassing for LWN readership

Posted Jan 6, 2022 19:08 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link] (1 responses)

You must never be using Twitter, Facebook and other popular "social" media...

Back to the original point: it's not like anyone reads _all_ comments on LWN. The comments for this article were especially easy to avoid: very strange to find you here now.

There are very long and off-topic digressions sometimes in other articles but the threading makes it possible to skip them. A feature to "fold" any sub-thread would be awesome.