Perhaps, but… I honestly can’t tell what opinion that would be.
Like, a thing I appreciate about the commenter is that they’re admirably straightforward. They say what they think and don’t try to weasel out of it later. I don’t love that they’re deliberately trying to hurt me (seemingly without checking if they could accomplish their goals some other way), but at least they’re upfront about it. It seems to me that there’s unusually little room for misinterpretation here.
And yet, so much of what they’re saying is completely out there, and I just don’t believe that most people agree with it.
I could believe that most people agree, at least unreflexively and perhaps after consideration, with “OSS maintainers have no responsibility”. (And possibly even with “no responsibility at all without consent”.) But I think most of them would not bite the bullets that this user does.
Like, I could see someone saying “they don’t have a responsibility here, but they still shouldn’t deliberately introduce bugs to brick people’s OSes, and it’s totally reasonable for people to complain if they do”. And then there’s a conversation about what does responsibility even mean, and maybe it turns out we don’t mean the same thing by it and don’t really disagree that much, or maybe we actually do have some important disagreements. But that’s not at all where the conversation went.
I don’t believe most people agree with “If someone deliberately bricks a bunch of people’s OSes, and then stops doing that, you call them generous”. I don’t even believe most people agree with the earlier bit about deliberately bricking OSes not being something to complain about.
I could believe that most people agree, at least unreflexively and perhaps after consideration, that I’m being too demanding. I included a list of quotes to say “no, really, I’m demanding very little”, but I could see someone thinking I’m demanding more than I realize, or thinking I’m being dishonest about how much I’m demanding, or something. But that’s not where the conversation went either. That user doesn’t obviously think either of those. They call me a narcissist, but not a liar. They don’t say that the opt-outs I offer are burdensome.
I don’t believe that most people agree with the thing about “if I have a habit of offering to vacuum for people and not showing up, no one has the right to ask me why”.
So to the extent those comments express an opinion held by /r/programming at large, I think they also express much more extreme opinions that /r/programming doesn’t hold.
(I could be missing something, of course. I don’t trust myself to see clearly here.)
Perhaps, but… I honestly can’t tell what opinion that would be.
Like, a thing I appreciate about the commenter is that they’re admirably straightforward. They say what they think and don’t try to weasel out of it later. I don’t love that they’re deliberately trying to hurt me (seemingly without checking if they could accomplish their goals some other way), but at least they’re upfront about it. It seems to me that there’s unusually little room for misinterpretation here.
And yet, so much of what they’re saying is completely out there, and I just don’t believe that most people agree with it.
I could believe that most people agree, at least unreflexively and perhaps after consideration, with “OSS maintainers have no responsibility”. (And possibly even with “no responsibility at all without consent”.) But I think most of them would not bite the bullets that this user does.
Like, I could see someone saying “they don’t have a responsibility here, but they still shouldn’t deliberately introduce bugs to brick people’s OSes, and it’s totally reasonable for people to complain if they do”. And then there’s a conversation about what does responsibility even mean, and maybe it turns out we don’t mean the same thing by it and don’t really disagree that much, or maybe we actually do have some important disagreements. But that’s not at all where the conversation went.
I don’t believe most people agree with “If someone deliberately bricks a bunch of people’s OSes, and then stops doing that, you call them generous”. I don’t even believe most people agree with the earlier bit about deliberately bricking OSes not being something to complain about.
I could believe that most people agree, at least unreflexively and perhaps after consideration, that I’m being too demanding. I included a list of quotes to say “no, really, I’m demanding very little”, but I could see someone thinking I’m demanding more than I realize, or thinking I’m being dishonest about how much I’m demanding, or something. But that’s not where the conversation went either. That user doesn’t obviously think either of those. They call me a narcissist, but not a liar. They don’t say that the opt-outs I offer are burdensome.
I don’t believe that most people agree with the thing about “if I have a habit of offering to vacuum for people and not showing up, no one has the right to ask me why”.
So to the extent those comments express an opinion held by /r/programming at large, I think they also express much more extreme opinions that /r/programming doesn’t hold.
(I could be missing something, of course. I don’t trust myself to see clearly here.)