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From: Alan Reiner <etotheipi@gmail.com>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Tree-chains preliminary summary
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:02:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5331C49B.2000709@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJHLa0PR8v2FobPUsO73BKpvBZ3M2Zsx1F9SVGVb6TKv6zsjWw@mail.gmail.com>

I would echo the need for some kind of moderation. 

I believe Peter Todd is an extremely intelligent individual, who has a
lot to offer the Bitcoin community.  He has a firm grasp of a lot of
really deep Bitcoin concepts and his *technical* insight is generally
positive.  Technically.  But the way he communicates on this list is
*extremely* corrosive and breeds hostility.  It makes it a scary place
to discuss things, with frequent, public ridicule of everything posted. 

I agree that I would rather have a friendly environment to discuss
technicals, even if it means losing additional technical insight. 
People who would explicitly insult other contributors intelligence and
character on a public list should be subject to some kind of negative
reinforcement.   Maybe there's solutions other than outright banning.

-Alan



On 03/25/2014 01:37 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
>> For someone with 'Chief Scientist' as their job title, I'm surprised you
>> think so little of hard evidence and so much of idol worshipping.
> Peter, take this unprofessional, personal crap off-list.
>
> Mike's anecdote of hostility is not an isolated one.  Just today, a
> bitcore developer commented on "Peter Todd's ..apocalyptic vision
> and... negative view on bitcoin" which turned off some other
> developers from participating more interactively.
>
> As I commented on IRC, open source projects are no strangers to people
> who simultaneously (a) make useful contributions and (b) turn
> potential contributors away with an abrasive or hostile attitude
> toward others.  It's an unsolved problem in OSS, that I saw for 15+
> years in the Linux kernel community.
>
> For this list, as Mike suggested on IRC, introducing an openly stated
> moderation policy may be the one route.
>




  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-25 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-22  8:47 [Bitcoin-development] Handling miner adoption gracefully for embedded consensus systems via double-spending/replace-by-fee Peter Todd
2014-03-22 13:53 ` Jorge Timón
2014-03-22 19:34   ` Peter Todd
2014-03-22 20:12     ` Jorge Timón
2014-03-23 23:17       ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-03-23 23:53         ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-03-24 20:34           ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-03-24 20:57             ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-03-25 22:10               ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-03-26  1:09                 ` kjj
2014-03-22 15:08 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-03-22 17:04   ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-03-22 19:08   ` Peter Todd
2014-03-23 22:37     ` Troy Benjegerdes
     [not found]     ` <532DE7E6.4050304@monetize.io>
2014-03-25 12:28       ` [Bitcoin-development] Tree-chains preliminary summary Peter Todd
2014-03-25 12:45         ` Gavin Andresen
2014-03-25 13:49           ` Peter Todd
2014-03-25 15:20             ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-25 16:47               ` Peter Todd
2014-03-25 17:37             ` Jeff Garzik
2014-03-25 18:02               ` Alan Reiner [this message]
2014-03-25 18:13                 ` slush
2014-03-25 19:47                   ` Peter Todd
2014-03-25 21:41                     ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-03-25 20:40             ` Ricardo Filipe
2014-03-25 22:00               ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-03-26 10:58               ` Peter Todd
2014-03-25 12:50         ` Peter Todd
2014-03-25 21:03         ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-03-25 22:34           ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-03-27 16:14             ` Jorge Timón
2014-03-28 15:10               ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-04-17 21:41                 ` Tier Nolan
2014-03-26 10:48           ` Peter Todd
2014-08-03 17:23         ` Gregory Sanders
2014-03-24 21:17 ` [Bitcoin-development] Handling miner adoption gracefully for embedded consensus systems via double-spending/replace-by-fee Luke-Jr

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