On Troll Hugging, Hole Digging, and Improving Open Source Communities
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Its interesting how hostile and vitriolic the bitcoin development community has been lately, kind of a good proof point for what the original article is trying to say.
this might be OK sometimes, but that depends on how deep you actually have to dig to get at what you want.
grad school, for example, seems to consist of drilling wells that start in very broad holes and go quite deep.
An open source project on the other hand, is rarely written to be an attractive nuisance and less commonly shared for that purpose. Most of the people who pay attention pay attention because its purpose might relate to their interests or purpose.
In the case of an open source project, much of what might come across as trolling by people at the edge of the hole is driven by frustration. Part of that frustration is that they do not see the project as exactly meeting their needs. Part of that is frustration with the need itself. Their expressions may come across as trolling simply because they do not speak the same language as those deeper in the hole. Part of it is often the problem most communities have with "endless september".