KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
2d ago
That's the one.
I read the remarks about
KingOfTheBailey
4d ago
It took a couple of read-throughs of HPMOR for me to get that a) Harry was not being held up by EY as a role model, and b) the main moral of the story is that (spoilers all)
KingOfTheBailey
11d ago
Is everyone on this board handsome?
KingOfTheBailey
14d ago
Yes. Hence my interest in hardening a community when new projects struggle to attract any contributors at all, and it's hard to be choosy or exclude the people who are going to wreck it.
KingOfTheBailey
16d ago
What is the best way to harden a free software community against the sort of drama which recently engulfed the Nix community? Preemptive bans seem like a recipe for getting called an x-phobe, but letting these people stay and build up numbers results in takeovers. Has anyone seen a free software project's community successfully resist the tactics of the woke left?
KingOfTheBailey
17d ago
I remember online chatter about the possibility of a new R President being the Worst Thing Ever being near-constant, all the way back to Bush Jr.'s second round.
KingOfTheBailey
19d ago
How does a project stop these people from getting a toehold and leveraging that into a takeover?
KingOfTheBailey
22d ago
I've heard this called a "preference cascade", and I think I first heard it on the Timur Kuran episode of The Portal podcast.
KingOfTheBailey
23d ago
Does anyone here know is going on with NixOS? There seems to be a new round of explosions and fresh community drama of some kind.
Great post. I think many LWers and HPMOR readers were probably so starved for a single decent teacher in their entire schooling that they latched onto themselves as Harry and yearned for someone with Quirrel's attitude to BS.
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