Perhaps we need communities (subreddits, etc) that are moderated by leaders in the OSS community who also have a sense for how damaging the negativity is for us. I personally would love to see some js/programming subreddits with less angry rants, “why’s my code broken”, and “here’s an intro to new ES2015 features when it’s almost 2017” posts; more focused on promoting & discussing new ideas and advancing our craft.
Yeah they're doing a great job in fighting spam but it's more about the grey content. Maybe we should try to up the baseline a bit and not allow content that doesn't contribute to discussion?
"Angular 2 is terrible" should've been removed purely based on its title imo, pure clickbait
This article started with me really angry about this subreddit and was originally titled "Dear /r/javascript".
Instead of immediately posting it in anger I waited a few days, rewrote it like 4 times, cleaned it up, got feedback from a bunch of other OSS people, and made sure it was accomplishing something.
The point of this post wasn't to say no one should criticize anything. It is itself a criticism. But we need to, as a community, do it in a healthier way.
That was my original point. I'd prefer to have a community, whether it's this one, or an additional one, where the mods DO make those editorial decisions, because the mods are trusted as leaders.
IMO "Dear JavaScript" is also clickbait, it doesn't tell us in any way whatsoever what the content is, but we can tell by the wording that it's going to be emotional, and therefore entices us to click.
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u/jimbolla Dec 05 '16
Crossposting my comment for visibility: