I suppose there’s a risk of Goodhart’s Law—any measurement which is used to guide policy will become corrupt.
I called it aggression. I’m not sure that the guy in the video did.
The intent isn’t to solve every workplace problem. It’s to solve one quite serious problem which appears in volunteer organizations (the video focused on open source projects) as well as conventional employment.
The claim is that a small percentage of people habitually leave the other people (probably the people of lower status) around them feeling miserable, and this is a problem.
Once a mechanism for excluding people who do this is in place, there’s a risk it could be used for scapegoating, and I haven’t seen any discussion of how that could be prevented.
I mean that there is a competition element in social relations if the projects are on an equivalent level. e.g. OpenBSD versus everyone; Apache OpenOffice versus LibreOffice; and this competition element will help the project that’s nicer to work with gain participants, and this will help select against both assholery and scapegoating. This of course requires competing projects of comparable quality in the first place, which is not so common.
I suppose there’s a risk of Goodhart’s Law—any measurement which is used to guide policy will become corrupt.
I called it aggression. I’m not sure that the guy in the video did.
The intent isn’t to solve every workplace problem. It’s to solve one quite serious problem which appears in volunteer organizations (the video focused on open source projects) as well as conventional employment.
The claim is that a small percentage of people habitually leave the other people (probably the people of lower status) around them feeling miserable, and this is a problem.
Once a mechanism for excluding people who do this is in place, there’s a risk it could be used for scapegoating, and I haven’t seen any discussion of how that could be prevented.
In open source, competing forks with visibly different attitudes.
Could you expand on that?
I mean that there is a competition element in social relations if the projects are on an equivalent level. e.g. OpenBSD versus everyone; Apache OpenOffice versus LibreOffice; and this competition element will help the project that’s nicer to work with gain participants, and this will help select against both assholery and scapegoating. This of course requires competing projects of comparable quality in the first place, which is not so common.