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Re:The Cancers In The Ruby Community by rollypolly on Sunday April 15, 2012 @04:21PM (#3844609)
How do you fix lack of professionalism?
Re:The Cancers In The Ruby Community by derefr on Sunday April 15, 2012 @04:28PM (#3844632)
You don't. Non-professionals will become professionals with time and experience, but there will always be more non-professionals to take their place. The only reason some communities have to deal with more non-professionals than others, is that those communities are perceived to have a lower barrier to entry--so, when a non-professional tries to select a community to join/language to learn/tool to use/etc., they end up with the "easier" one, and thus the "easier" community builds a reputation of non-professionalism. The only real measure one can take to avoid this is to make the community unattractive to non-professionals: in est, to raise the barrier to entry.
Re:The Cancers In The Ruby Community by FooBarWidget on Sunday April 15, 2012 @06:17PM (#3844961)
I don't think barrier to entry is the only factor, if it's a factor at all. The Linux desktop has a relatively high barrier of entry, and yet a large part of its community has devolved into an elitist, cognitive dissonant crowd that's defending their usability problems by framing them as a good things.