Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off

Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by noobermin on Sunday September 16, 2018 @09:22PM (#18002440)

I don't think it has to be 1D. What I think reality is can be plotted in 2D:

                 abrasive
                    |
                    |
     effective------+-------ineffective
                    |
                    |     
                   kind

You're claiming is (and the common trope is) the actual distribution is in fact a straight line with a -1 slope (y=-x). I think there's a general possibility that the distribution is focused around the y=-x here, but there are outliers (imagine the line blurred out) with some wings escaping the lines, with probably what people want the most being in the 3rd quadrant (y<0 && x<0).

And hell, there are people who are both abrasive AND ineffective in real life. We know that.

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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by citrablue on Sunday September 16, 2018 @09:49PM (#18002571)

To take it one step further, I'd say that it's more of a probability function than a 2d chart. I think of it more as your chart, plus a 3rd dimension of "context", then a density cloud.

Put another way, people have probability distributions of alignments based on context.

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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by hatmatrix on Sunday September 16, 2018 @09:35PM (#18002500)

If you populate these quadrants most points might lie in QII and QIV (along the -1 diagonal) with few in QI and QIII (though maybe we all know many QI's in our lives...).

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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by da_chicken on Sunday September 16, 2018 @10:13PM (#18002661)

I think that's obersavtion bias. We tend to remember people who are either abrasive or ineffective. The former because their behavior stands out and the latter because they tend to get in our way. People who are effective and kind tend to be forgettable because we get exactly what we want without any conflict. It just magically appears to work.

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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by marmot777 on Sunday September 16, 2018 @09:38PM (#18002518)

Yes.

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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by ryacko on Sunday September 16, 2018 @11:45PM (#18003050)

He should only be angry at those who should know better. He often is set off by randos who only want to contribute.

So 2D is still too simple. It is like a horseshoe, one can be so abusive that the project fails because of it.

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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by icebraining on Monday September 17, 2018 @03:12AM (#18003800)

Can you give one or two examples of him being "set off by randos who only want to contribute"? I can't say I remember that at all.

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