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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday June 07 2017, @09:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the be-nice-or-I'm-gonna-cry dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @12:54AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @12:54AM (#522356)

    Superficial charm and good intelligence
    Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking
    Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations
    Unreliability
    Untruthfulness and insincerity
    Lack of remorse and shame
    Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior
    Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience
    Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love
    General poverty in major affective reactions
    Specific loss of insight
    Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations
    Fantastic and uninviting behavior with alcohol and sometimes without
    Suicide threats rarely carried out
    Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
    Failure to follow any life plan

    You match a few of those for sure. I wouldn't actually consider you a sociopath, just your online persona. You're actually just a lame troll with sociopathic tendencies. But hey, I could be wrong maybe you are full sociopath. You have adequately displayed these ones, but the internet breeds these traits from certain demographics.

    Lack of remorse and shame
    Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior
    Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience
    Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love
    General poverty in major affective reactions
    Specific loss of insight

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 08 2017, @01:06AM

    Since that was a well presented reply, I'll go ahead and respond in kind. I am nothing even approaching a sociopath. Their defining characteristic is that they do not feel empathy. I do. I do not, however, let my emotions control my rational mind, so letting those of others dictate what I think is right out. This does not make me a sociopath, simply a rational adult.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.