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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: 1) by Arik on Thursday June 08 2017, @01:32AM

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday June 08 2017, @01:32AM (#522375) Journal
    "Your delusions of persecution not withstanding, nobody wants to play referee, its something that gets forced on them by sociopaths who think social norms don't apply to them."

    Now I don't think I know you, Anon, but that line sounds mighty familiar.

    Makes me think maybe the problems you have experienced have more to do with YOU being the sort of asshole that thinks it's his job to decide what 'social norms' apply in every situation and to get offended if they are violated.

    The internet is not a social thing, and a Free Software Project is not a social group - quite to the contrary, they're about building useful things, they are polar opposites.
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    If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?