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El Reg has an interesting read on an OSS developers survey:
Most of the negative behaviour is explained as "rudeness", which has been experienced witnessed by 45 per cent of participants and experienced by 16 per cent. GitHub's summary of the survey says really nasty stuff like "sexual advances, stalking, or doxxing are each encountered by less than five per cent of respondents and experienced by less than two per cent (but cumulatively witnessed by 14%, and experienced by three per cent)." Twenty five per cent of women respondents reported experiencing "language or content that makes them feel unwelcome", compared to 15 per cent of men.
This stuff has consequences: 21 per cent of those who see negative behaviour bail from projects they were working on.
Now I take an entirely different conclusion than El Reg on this. To me this says that two or three percent of respondents have valid reason to bitch about bad behavior but a further eighteen or nineteen percent above that simply are not capable of working with other people. Come on, who here has never held a job where someone on staff was a dickhead/bitch but you kept on working anyway? Me, I've not once held a job where there were zero personality conflicts. In my less than humble opinion, part of being an adult is being able to deal professionally or at least civilly with other human beings who do not cater to your every sensitivity.
Maybe I'm just a relic of the past though. Maybe the future really is a bunch of snowflakes crying to $boss to get you fired if you say or do anything they dislike.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @11:11PM (12 children)
There sure are a lot of useless assholes who really hate this place but seem to be in no hurry to leave.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday June 07 2017, @11:40PM (7 children)
That happens when you surpass a certain level of notoriety. I take it as a compliment for the site.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @12:13AM (6 children)
Ah yes, the "jesus was hated by the romans" defense of iniquity.
I had no idea the mighty bummer was a christian, sounds like you a runaway attend the same church.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 08 2017, @12:39AM (5 children)
Likewise, nobody trolls irrelevant people. Thank you for the compliment.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday June 08 2017, @02:19AM
L. M. A. O!
Maybe some day we'll get someone famous commenting here... Like the realDonaldTr...... Oooooooooh!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @04:55AM (3 children)
I dunno, being famous for asshole trolling is not exactly a compliment. But you're a total troll, so I guess it is? I mean hell, Hitler was famous too.
You can dooo eeeet!
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 08 2017, @09:54AM (2 children)
You kidding? It got Cheeto Jesus the Oval Office.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Informative) by DannyB on Thursday June 08 2017, @05:18PM (1 child)
It wasn't trolling. It was just ordinary lying.
Trolling takes some degree of skill I can tell you, . . . er, nevermind that. But Trump has no real skill.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Thursday June 08 2017, @06:32PM
It was definitely trolling. It was misleading, hysterical and hyperbolic verbiage aimed specifically at low-information, critical-thinking impaired voters. Some of it was true, too - but presented in such a way as to provoke toxic reactions that had little or nothing to do with what was going to actually happen.
"Drain the swamp", for instance, stood quite truthfully upon the fact that Washington is a morass of ethics-ducking, self-enriching, oath-violating turdpockets. But it was a troll: he used the truth to weasel his way in, then proceeded to salt the system with much more problematic individuals. He drained the swamp, all right... the alligator population is diminished, but now has has installed even more vicious predators upon the public.
He did the same thing with the ACA: He told voters he would replace it because "it was bad." There's some truth in that (some of which the Republicans are directly responsible for, such as the breaking of medicaid expansion and the fact that insurance companies were told they'd get reimbursement as part of the ACA, where Republican Marco Rubio intentionally saw to it that they did not get the majority of those payments. [nytimes.com]) So what does he try to replace the ACA with? Something far, far worse for those voters.
The very definition of a successful troll is that the trollee doesn't know they've been trolled. This is where we have stood for many months, as Trump's trollees have stood behind his every erosion of progress he has engaged in.
Just because something is a lie doesn't mean it isn't a troll. But trolls can be based on truth as well. A troll is a targeted misleading statement intended to rile up the recipient. That's 100% Trump, right there.
It is only now that Trump voters are beginning to wake up and smell the dragons that have replaced the alligators. V(oters)H definitely BT.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @12:04AM
Like the place but not the major tools who inhabit it. Still enough decent folks and reasonable discourse even from the trolls to make it worthwhile. Lots of negative feedback recently, we shall see how it goes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @01:17AM (2 children)
Self-congratulatory snarkiness aside, you prompted some internal reflection.
WTF am I still here? Why do I put up with the mighty bummer's constant pissing all over the site, marking it like a dog?
And then I realized it: Javascript. The green site still depends on javascript.
In terms of content and especially respect for their users, the site has drastically improved since Dice sold it.
But having to manually enable javascript each time I go there has been a mental barrier that kept me away.
So you know what? You are right. I should leave. So I am just going to grit my teeth, set noscript to permanently allow javascript on slashdot.org, abandon my 2-digit account here and go back to my 4-digit account over there.
Living with javascript is still better than regularly imbibing the feotid nihlism that the mighty bummer has cultivated here.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Thursday June 08 2017, @02:12AM
Have you seen the quality of the comments there lately? It's quite sad.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Gaaark on Thursday June 08 2017, @02:25AM
Have you checked your Wheaton meter lately?
You are officially in Dick zone.
Ohnoes, to JavaScript or not to JavaScript? Why am I still alive? I have to keep BREATHING!!!
Don't be a dick, dick.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---