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Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability (www.404media.co)

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[–] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For far too long, there's been this idea in tech spaces that a person, regardless of how shitty they are, is automatically deserving of adulation because they're some "10x" developer. That soft skills, and wider understanding of the landscape, are completely unnecessary. They think it's "meritocracy" where all that matters is the code you deliver, and you can be the shittiest person on the planet otherwise. It's created so much toxicity, so much hostility, and driven so many people away. And it's so much more apparent in OSS spaces where pull requests seem to be the only currency people have to wield.

Those kinds of attitudes completely pushed me away from participating is nearly all Linux/OSS communities. I used to be really active on a number of forums and in irc. But that kind of shit became so overbearing it just wasn't worth it anymore. Not to mention the fact that it felt like 75% of the people there were also 4channers and well on their way down the alt-right rabbit hole.