LITERALLY THIS MORNING I woke up to a notification of a reply to an issue I filed under someone else's project, where I knew it was a hard thing to do but thought it would be good to track and discuss. And some jerk decided to show up and literally call the maintainer lazy to their face????
this is literally an enormous verilog project that needs a massive rewrite for a tiny feature. Literally someone demanding a random hobbyist emulator dev to rewrite an entire fpga-based "emulator" from the ground up, just so they can have a single, totally optinal, pet feature.
Too true. And they'll defend their "rights" to your time and labour right down to the bone on the basis that if you shared it, that's on you. So much entitlement, so little courtesy.
I've had people demand I change the license of a project before (which, sure, I can do it, but not for free and it won't be cheap), but threatening to fucking sue? That's not even entitlement anymore
"Hey, I am a fan of this because reason. I am struggling with Y, because Z. I have tried DEF. Looking for any advise or thoughts on R, thanks in advance".
Some people grew up learning their manners from Social Media Political Arguments and Call of Duty chat rooms. Another portion of us learned it from the patience of dial up modem services.
This is definitely not a generational thing. I'm only 35, and I've gotten some absolutely foul messages from people significantly older and younger than me. Older people tend to be LESS patient, IME
THIS. Part of why the social engineering campaign against Lasse Collin for the xz-utils attack worked is that the abusive treatment by an attacker persona was indistinguishable from normal maintainer harassment!
Moderating communities so people aren’t shitty to each other is probably such a +EV response for national security that it boggles my mind why nobody’s done the math on that yet and green-lit community care programs on an international scale, yet
I suspect the workplace equivalent makes some other social attacks work. If you're used to your boss raging out at you, you're less likely to push back on getting a message "from your boss" to buy Amazon gift cards now now now.
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PEOPLE SUCK
but yeah its a real big problem, ppl think they own you just because you made things in public
"Hey, I am a fan of this because reason. I am struggling with Y, because Z. I have tried DEF. Looking for any advise or thoughts on R, thanks in advance".
Versus:
"Wtfwhydoyoudothisthat'ssostupidurghyourelame"
Like why.
Less patient in the face of bullshit.
41 - Bullshit - Hahah fuck off
Have no more time for people's crap. Be brief and be gone, am I right? :D
The worst case I have to deal with on an ongoing basis has been behaving like an ass for 20 years.
Moderating communities so people aren’t shitty to each other is probably such a +EV response for national security that it boggles my mind why nobody’s done the math on that yet and green-lit community care programs on an international scale, yet
If people don’t like the state of a repo let me tell you, the fork button is right over there ➡️
Was not a fun experience
At least most of my users are nice
Its like being mean to local barista for looking non-binary and then come home and be mad at coffee