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Assholes are Ruining Your Project. Donnie Berkholz (RedMonk).

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What it is

Donnie Berkholz of RedMonk gives a Monki Gras talk arguing that abusive, toxic contributors damage open source projects. He makes the case for removing them from communities.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited as the go-to evidence that rudeness drives contributors away and that toxic people must be removed from projects.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Assholes will ruin your project[1], you need to get rid of them”

    Argues toxic people ruin projects and must be removed.

    justincormack, 2014-02 · Recommendation · in “The GNU C Library version 2.19 is now available”

  2. “A good video related to this”

    Related video on toxic people in projects.

    Modified3019, 2023-09 · Recommendation · in “Don't Use Discord as a Forum”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: open source, community management, toxic contributors, maintainers, culture

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