2026-06-22 03:42 UTC
@ekuber@hachyderm.io I used to run an industry standards group. One of the participants was very smart, and exceedingly arrogant. He told people to their face they were idiots if they disagreed with him.
Eventually I asked his management to remove him from the standards activity, because whatever his contributions, they were lost in the friction and anger he caused.
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@ekuber@hachyderm.io 2026-06-22 03:47
@oddhack@mstdn.social It's important to act to remediate the situation, because otherwise you end up driving away everyone else that could have equal or greater contributions that don't have any desire to deal with that bullshit. It's the "paradox of tolerance" or the "Nazi bar" problem, at a less extreme level.