Le dimanche 23 février 2020, 21:21:18 CET Andreas Enge a écrit : > Well, I will let it drop - I am quite optimistic that personally I will > survive to insults by random strangers on the Internet. > > The reason I have been insisting is that inaction towards this kind of > behaviour kills communication in the GNU project - if victims of verbal > abuse are expected to change their opinions to stop the name calling, > or are invited to be less susceptible, they will eventually just leave,
This is a pattern I dislike: “okay this doesn’t work for me but it’d work for other so beware!”. The most often I hear this, it’s from people saying “of course I work for free most of the time but *nobody else would ever* do that, so we should never expect for it to happen!”. This is a bad pattern as you dismiss the fact you have no tangible direct proof of what you assume, but you want to lead to concrete reaction netherless… I mean, when someone resorts to insults… they’re not to be taken as much seriously as before, are they? So it is reasonable to then more easily ignore them, right?