2026-06-21 17:02 UTC
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@cr1901@mastodon.social 2026-06-21 17:10
@ekuber@hachyderm.io This goes both ways- if one is filing AI slop bug reports, they're being an asshole. I don't have a problem responding with "immediate close, refuse to interact", which some contributors (hey, myself included :P) would consider being an asshole.
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@yosh@toot.yosh.is 2026-06-21 17:16
@ekuber@hachyderm.io Another one in this genre: people who mistake cynicism for wisdom.
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@Wearwolf@kind.social 2026-06-21 20:09
@ekuber@hachyderm.io this makes me think of all the times I have seen the lead contributor for a large project go "I'm sorry, I'm just not good with people." And it's like, that's a problem you can solve if you want to. Either by learning to be better with people or by hiring someone to do the communication part of your job
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@fullywoolly@mastodon.social 2026-06-22 00:09
@ekuber@hachyderm.io that's pretty much been my experience in engineering. You have a couple conceited assholes that everyone worships and they sit there and shit on everyone thinking they are amazing. Are they smart, sure. Are they experienced, yup. Are they insufferable, 100%. Why do their egos need to be stroked to the point it needs to be a competition instead of collaboration.
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@abmallgren@mastodon.social 2026-06-22 03:40
@ekuber@hachyderm.io Why is it an issue? Push comes to shove, tell all these people to go to hell, and do everything on your own. Just switch the repository to private. Problem solved.
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@oddhack@mstdn.social 2026-06-22 03:42
@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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@Aoi_X_Kaizaki@mastodon.social 2026-06-22 05:49
@ekuber@hachyderm.io I've had a problem with me working with people. Either I did all the work and they never contributed or They did the work, but never wanted me to contribute anything.
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@jgobble@mastodon.social 2026-06-22 10:08
@ekuber@hachyderm.io That first paragraph reminds me of Jeffrey Katzenberg, or the latter days of Michael Eisner at Disney.
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@wfk@social.v.st 2026-06-22 11:26
@ekuber@hachyderm.io is it just me, or is this thread indeed displaying some of the attitude issues this post is trying to address? As someone observed: communication with people is a skill. It needs to be learned. If you have some autistic tendencies, this learning may take double or triple the effort it takes for some others. And if you really can't get a handle on it, see if you can find someone to help you with that task.
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@LJ@sunny.garden 2026-06-22 14:53
@ekuber@hachyderm.io 1000%
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@reflex@retrogaming.social 2026-06-22 15:31
@ekuber@hachyderm.io This. I skip a lot of popular shows because of this trope and my experience in community organizing which has demonstrated that yes, these people know they are harming the organization but will contribute juuuust enough to not get banned. In reality they are predators and leeches and cutting them loose will gain the organization more than it loses.