Comment by michaelmrose
7 years ago
It seems amazing to me that people use toxic to mean "A tiny minority of anonymous people on a world accessable network of people may say mean things"
The world is full of at least 10% of people that are just stupid and awful. We should work to keep taking out the trash but we shouldn't turn away from the entire community.
If you choose not to share your own work because someone might say mean things I'm disappointed but if you keep private forks of public open source software I feel like your cheating the system that benefits you.
Why do you accept that people being mean to you is a price you must be willing to pay to participate? (Aside, toxic can be much much worse that just "being mean", but I'll engage with your definition here for the sake of discussion.)
I mean that some portion of the population is between disagreeable and despicable. Good communities ban the despicable but no matter where you draw the line some people will inevitably be negative enough to be a drag without stepping over the line to the point of being banned.
> It seems amazing to me that people use toxic to mean "A tiny minority of anonymous people on a world accessable network of people may say mean things"
If that tiny minority are in charge of or prominent in projects you're thinking about contributing to, then that's all that really matters, no?
How many successful projects are run by people that fit that description?