Re:Dear JavaScript
by throwayawnotime on Monday December 05, 2016 @11:54AM
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I strongly suspect that the competitive environment in Javascript frameworks and :s/tool/fool/ing is the main source of the negativity:
Trolls have the explicit agenda to demolish/demotivate what they're trolling in order to push their own project/framework.
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Re:Dear JavaScript
by moron4hire on Monday December 05, 2016 @12:37PM
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This is a really shitty thing to say, which you clearly understand.
The 90/9/1 comes in to play here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
I have found that even sites like HN don't skew significantly far from this. As users, we can't know who the 90% of people are who read this site and never post. But there are definitely 9 times more people commenting than creating.
As an open source project maintainer myself, I have absolutely zero time to go talk shit about my competitors, even if I had shit to say about them.
In my observation, one troll can and will show up under many different identities, so there may be a 90/9/1 rule, but it can be gamed.