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I'm sorry that happened. I wish there was some way to solve the "one jerk outweighs a thousand happy users" problem. I still vividly remember one guy being an asshole about my work on the Wine bug tracker a decade ago, regardless of how many happy users I know there were.

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> I wish there was some way to solve the "one jerk outweighs a thousand happy users" problem.

We could downvote all that stuff to oblivion. Instead, comments like it are voted to the top comment on almost every page.

It's human nature, unfortunately. Reality television producers have known this for ages: the episodes that feature people who come off as irredeemable jerks always garner the highest ratings.

> It's human nature, unfortunately.

If that ever really meant something, it has been so overused in the last few years that it's impossible to pick out any needles of serious use from the general default trendy grain silos of despair.

I'm not trying to get all of humanity to give up sex. I believe we can do better, here on HN, in this one regard. I am that insanely optimistic!

Or instead Mozilla could actually listen to user feedback. People don't "shit" on Firefox for no reason.

Yeah, but shitting on devs for stuff they have nothing to do with is just a lousy thing to do.

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