Comment by cup-of-tea
7 years ago
I'm a disagreeable giver. I've just left a job which didn't appreciate this. Funny thing is, everyone on my level said all the time how much they appreciate my openness with knowledge and desire to teach my skills. I found that odd because I consider it completely normal. The people above me hated it, though. Some of them shot down my efforts to enable basic knowledge sharing in the company. Most of the time I just made it very obvious that I could see them with their clothes off, though, and there were a lot of naked people above me.
Well done. Can I ask why the superiors didn't want you to share knowledge? Is it something about wielding power and keeping low-level employees in the dark?
It was a desire to have trade secrets kept from other departments in the same organisation. My superiors realised that a lot of our worth was just the things we knew and that if I just wrote it down it would make us kind of pointless. They didn't really understand that I consider myself a bit more than a meat-based knowledge repository.
Am I wrong to assume that most of HN is the disagreeable giver type?
I’m assuming that agreeable people tend not to seek out information outside of their bounds, and takers would be on some crypto trading forum or something.
I think you're probably right, yeah. The typical internet commenter will be very quick to tell you you're wrong, but they'll make every effort to tell you why.
I don't think that your hypothesis can be proved, unless the givers here can be just agreeable enough to reach some form of consensus about your assumption.
Nothing stopping people from being both here and on crypto forums.