one of the worst things about open source is all the absolute crap that is claiming to be useful. how many man-millennia have been wasted because of the armies of people who have posted something they're proud of, but is complete rubbish, on npmjs.org?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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None. If someone is proud of something they worked hard on, why shouldn't they post it? What is the harm their hard work being public causes? It hurts literally no one.
You know what the worst thing about open source actually is? People who aren't owed anything, demanding to only see high quality code for their free enjoyment.
Seriously, this is a neat clearly proof of concept tool for a video game that is entirely about wasting time.
In fact, if the entire comment were just the third paragraph, it would be just fine.
I usually just flag and move on, i probably should have done that here too, but i stand by what's left of my comment post-edit.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
That kind of thing has poisonous systemic effects. It's not worth it.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Btw, I agree with you on the underlying point. But how one goes about making right points is exceedingly important. It may be more important than wrongness, although that's an unfashionable perspective at the moment.