Being considerate of others is important, but that shouldn't come at the cost of being afraid to speak up one's well-reasoned viewpoints. I already sense members of Hacker News beginning to speak up frankly; now we just need to take the same attitude out to the real world (outside of the internet) such that incidents like Donglegate or Github-Horvath do not repeat themselves.
I had thought about this topic. See my past comments:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372461
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372527
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10405881
Being considerate of others is important, but that shouldn't come at the cost of being afraid to speak up one's well-reasoned viewpoints. I already sense members of Hacker News beginning to speak up frankly; now we just need to take the same attitude out to the real world (outside of the internet) such that incidents like Donglegate or Github-Horvath do not repeat themselves.