Mean-spirited criticism makes contributors walk away
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because if you if you make people if you are mean spirited and you try to hurt people's feelings or make them feel bad about the work they're doing. That is the result that you're going to get. You're going to get people who don't want to participate
Episode 213: The Substrate (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:17:18 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Recalling how the World Outline project with Dave Winer ended after he was made to feel small, Dave names his fear for every open source project: if you're mean-spirited and try to make people feel bad about their work, you get people who don't want to participate and just go away. He says he won't leave, but he has to work through it so it doesn't come to that.