@pbreit Reddit is clearly an informal place to promote new things. This includes some jokes and banter and Massimo and av200101 have a polite and informative style which always tends to be objective.
We can of course all choose our words more carefully, but the ambience on Reddit seems more like a bar rather than a boardroom. As far as I know, the video is actually titled: "Building a minimalist Facebook clone and deploying it on Google App Engine" You are really saying that is provocative?! Please explain and suggest a less provocative title. Perhaps something like 'Programming video - please don't get upset or anything' might be better. You say that the Reddit posts "leave such a bad impression everywhere". That just seems plain wrong to me! The posts that I have seen are interesting and polite and I think the av200101 guy is great! On Mar 22, 5:27 am, pbreit <pbreitenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Massimo, sorry to say but I think your posting style invites the unwanted > attention (av201001, too). I'm a Web2py supporter but I think they are > right, we don't play well in the discussions. Posting a video under the > title "Facebook clone in 11 minutes" is unnecessarily provocative. Joking > about others hijacking the thread is passive-aggressive. As is following > every Flask/Django/etc comment with "but I like Flask/Django/etc". And > hijacking threads, which we clearly do, and saying we don't is really bad > style (regardless if other people do it). > > I think we could use a little grace in our interactions with the > communities. Web2py is too good to leave such a bad impression everywhere. > > I also think we overstate the benefits of not having to write much code. It > doesn't really matter what can be written with a little code, it matters > what can be written with a lot of code. Same with "write once, run > anywhere". Most deploy to one platform. These are nice features, but not > worth getting into arguments over.
