Comment by arp242
2 years ago
I really wish these "torch and pitchfork" posts were declared off-topic. A discussion on what/when to auto-download and how would be useful, but comments on these kind of submissions are almost always just ranting/complaining about how bad $x is, what idiots people are, and things like this.
> And people wonder why foss devs burn out.
I have slowly become convinced that the open source community has been infiltrated by trolls from, eh, I don't know – something or someone that doesn't like open source. I have no direct evidence for this, but it does seem to align with observed facts.
A few days ago someone posted some hobby project they worked on, and of course one of the replies was some unhinged rant about how the chosen $language wasn't any good and how they would "rather kill myself" than use that language... Okay... I don't think any normal personal can get get that triggered by someone's hobby project, hence my conclusion: infiltration by trolls.
Turning issue trackers into Emoji riddled social media platforms will do that alright.
What does that have to do with anything...?
It is easy to jump back and forward between this social media platform and the issue tracker. What do you think is incentivising the pitchforks you are complaining about - where do you think they want the angry mob to vent? The gamified issue tracker is where.
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