I was involved with Ruby and Rails in the early days. The Ruby mailing lists / conferences were always kind / helpful and the Rails lists / confs were always hit and miss. There were plenty of great Rails people, and enough jerks to upset anyone.
I read this (Clojure) google group pretty frequently awhile ago, but took several months off. I returned a week ago and after the first day I emailed Stu H. And said: Is <name withheld> one of the leaders of the community now? He seems really abrasive. Having been through this before I'd recommend a few things. - individually, -- reword responses from: "why would you do that" to "I prefer my solution because...". "that's not functional and it's ugly!" to "I believe my solution is more in-line with FP style" etc. The trick is to focus on what you are looking for (and the positives of the idea) instead of attacking someone else's solution. -- in niche communities, once you're labeled as a jerk, you're in trouble. People won't work with you. People won't answer your questions. And, people (often unfairly) assume you are wrong, simply because they don't like you. You can deal with this in a large (mostly anonymous) community. In a small community it's career limiting. - community -- it might be worth coming up with a few basic rules and removing people who can't follow them. Obviously, this isn't an easy task, but it might be worth the effort. Also, what happened to Rich? It seems like many wasteful discussions could be more easily put to bed by his response instead of the current "here's a video of Rich from a year ago" or "here's a link to something Rich wrote in the past" Or, maybe I'm oversensitive and things are fine. Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
