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Re:Show HN: Verilog2factorio by scrollaway on Saturday April 24, 2021 @10:40PM (#26929933)
Wow please stop with this gatekeeping. Seriously, people "posting their crap" is a great thing about open source. More should be encouraged to do so. If you look at my github profile you'll find the crap I wrote when I was 15 and still learning lua and python. The repos are of course archived and not claiming to be "web scale and enterprise ready", but nobody should shy away from learning in the open.

You know what the worst thing about open source actually is? People who aren't owed anything, demanding to only see high quality code for their free enjoyment.

Seriously, this is a neat clearly proof of concept tool for a video game that is entirely about wasting time.

Re:Show HN: Verilog2factorio by dang on Saturday April 24, 2021 @11:19PM (#26930099)
Please don't respond by taking threads further into flamewar. I get that your intention is positive but when you do it this way it does at least as much harm as good. If you took out the swipes it would work much better.

In fact, if the entire comment were just the third paragraph, it would be just fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Show HN: Verilog2factorio by scrollaway on Saturday April 24, 2021 @11:26PM (#26930124)
Ok, I've edited my comment to make it less hostile.
Re:Show HN: Verilog2factorio by dang on Saturday April 24, 2021 @11:29PM (#26930134)
If you still open with "Wow please stop with this gatekeeping" then you're still breaking the site guidelines. Please do better. Threads deteriorate more from people's reactions to bad comments then they do from the bad comments themselves. Much more, actually, because flamewars wouldn't spread at all if the only reactions were downvotes and flags.
Re:Show HN: Verilog2factorio by scrollaway on Saturday April 24, 2021 @11:43PM (#26930195)
I've removed the inflammatory stuff, it was out of line. But calling people out on gatekeeping others from contributing in open source is not that, i disagree.

I usually just flag and move on, i probably should have done that here too, but i stand by what's left of my comment post-edit.

Re:Show HN: Verilog2factorio by dang on Saturday April 24, 2021 @11:49PM (#26930219)
If you're tempted to use the phrase "calling out", you're probably not in the intended spirit of this site.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

That kind of thing has poisonous systemic effects. It's not worth it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Btw, I agree with you on the underlying point. But how one goes about making right points is exceedingly important. It may be more important than wrongness, although that's an unfashionable perspective at the moment.

Re:Show HN: Verilog2factorio by scrollaway on Sunday April 25, 2021 @12:01AM (#26930262)
Fair enough.
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Re:Show HN: Verilog2factorio by scrollaway on Saturday April 24, 2021 @11:00PM (#26930018)
I understood your comment just fine. Yes you are the one gatekeeping. No, people still don't owe you high quality code.

If a repo claims to be something that it isn't, you can complain (to the extent that it's polite and that your complaint might well be ignored regardless). Better yet would be to contribute.

The last repository whose quality-to-claimed-usefulness ratio was bad enough that it got me to complain, I now maintain. Be the change you want to see, instead of muttering about man-hours.

Re:Show HN: Verilog2factorio by TylerE on Saturday April 24, 2021 @10:57PM (#26930009)
Where is this code ever claimed to be useful?
Re:Show HN: Verilog2factorio by naikrovek on Sunday April 25, 2021 @04:53AM (#26931310)
am not talking about this code, and never was.