In regards, to Jeff's comment. I think it applies more to the likes of Reddit than SO. This other quote comes to mind.
If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
That's definitely understandable. I think some of this comes from the complications of a large group of people having to collectively understand that perhaps there is frustrations on both sides of this issue, and we're all in this together.
But I'm pretty sure, having established a dialog with Jeff myself, that it's not unfair to say that these tweets are in response to Stack criticism.
These are classic human problems we've been having for about 50,000 years. The internet makes it that much more complicated.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
In regards, to Jeff's comment. I think it applies more to the likes of Reddit than SO. This other quote comes to mind.
SO's situation and intolerance I feel more is bound from more experienced developers being upset as the lack from research and a large number of questions from users with only 1 reputation as well as people that just drop walls of text and code and expect an answer.
That's definitely understandable. I think some of this comes from the complications of a large group of people having to collectively understand that perhaps there is frustrations on both sides of this issue, and we're all in this together.
But I'm pretty sure, having established a dialog with Jeff myself, that it's not unfair to say that these tweets are in response to Stack criticism.
These are classic human problems we've been having for about 50,000 years. The internet makes it that much more complicated.
Oh yeah, with Jeff's history as the founder of the company and the release of the blog post there's not doubt it was in regards to SO :)
With my intro, I was just pointing out it seems many communities at scale have similar issues haha.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_n...
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