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Comment by busterarm

10 months ago

So moving to effectively censor criticism that you can't control is justified?

Maybe the problem IS marcan, as Linus suggested.

If you do things that are in the public interest, people are going to have opinions about what you do and on a wide spectrum. If you can't handle that, you probably shouldn't be doing work that's so public and visible. Especially something like maintainer work that is inherently social.

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Philpax  10 months ago

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  • loeg  10 months ago

    I remember that HN thread[0] and don't think Asahi's version is a good-faith, accurate summary of the contents. IMO they are inaccurately viewing a small number of flagged/dead comments as representative of HN in general.

    [0] probably: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33789940 , though you could look at any of the big 2022-2023 asahilinux.org discussions and find something flagged/dead

  • panick21_  10 months ago

    Basically he has to avoid any community with significant numbers of people. Not liking HN, reddit, twitter and so on, its just a numbers game.

    To respond to that by trying to cut of access to any place where many people exists is a questionable approach.

    And judging people simply by from where they arrived in a place is also questionable tactic one that we should not tolerate in real live.

  • onli  10 months ago

    I call bullshit on that. The Asahi Linux intiative got a lot of respect and praise on this site whenever I looked at those threads. It's very very unlikely that this negative depiction is accurate. Please show a specific example of a thread that got out of hand like that, otherwise this is completely unbelievable.

    Otherwise I would suggest that it says a lot when downvoting of comments is not understood as disapproval. And that it is a big warning sign when public devs/maintainers hallucinate hostile intentions to other communities as a whole.

  • busterarm  10 months ago

    I said opinions on a spectrum. Yes, an extreme end of that spectrum is an extreme response.

    This is something you have to put up with some amount of if you do work in public, just like if you were a public figure or celebrity. Being a kernel or even package maintainer is like being a politician.

    It sucks, but if your response is to cut off that channel of opinion _entirely_, that says more about you than the people you're silencing.

    If something violates HN Guidelines, flag it and dang will see it. If there's anything that should be blatantly obvious by now it's that HN's moderation staff does not have the kind of alt-right bias suggested by your quote.