>They are less likely to offend others and discourage people from contributing to the project.
What if the purpose is to discourage the people making those mistakes from contributing to the project?
Re:I Don't Like Debuggers (2000)
by vertex-four on Friday March 22, 2019 @06:30AM
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It also dissuades other people who may not make mistakes from contributing. I’m certainly not getting involved with a community run by someone who mirrors past abuse I’ve experienced, for example.
Re:I Don't Like Debuggers (2000)
by throwawaylolx on Friday March 22, 2019 @08:00AM
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Then it's an inefficient method to do so, because along with discouraging these particular people, it may also discourage many other productive and competent developers who don't wish to condone this sort of abusive leadership.
Perhaps the intention was to discourage the kind of people that are easily offended from such "abuse".
Re:I Don't Like Debuggers (2000)
by throwawaylolx on Friday March 22, 2019 @08:03PM
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Unless there's some demonstrated correlation that this subset of people is likely to be less productive contributing to a project like Linux, then this would just be bad leadership on behalf of Linus who'd exclude potential contributors based on personal whims.
You might consider simply emailing back with "please don't make mistakes contributing to the project". That works really well with me and everyone else I know. I don't need to be bullied to be convinced.
>Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it
>was a good idea to read things ONE FCKING BYTE AT A TIME with system
>calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the fck does
>idiotic things like that? How did they noty die as babies, considering
>that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?
Surely there are better ways to express a point without going at great length attempting to offend someone else. If you believe this sort of abusive attitude is acceptable, then why shouldn't people provide feedback with their fists as well? It can carry a similar degree of persuasion.