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What are you supposed to do if jerks join your community? Excommunicate them?


There's a talk called "How to Protect Your Open Source Project From Poisonous People" [1] that offers some suggestions.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/vishnu/how-to-protect-yourhow-to-p...



Messing up with git and apologizing publicly is hardly being a jerk IMHO.


He means none of them are being jerks - for instance a community of jerks might have responded to the announcement of a pretty inconvenient mistake by abusing the guy who made the mistake.


To clear it up, it was a question wondering how one would keep a community as jerk-free as the one they seem to have right now.


right, thanks!


Ummmm... I'm pretty sure that was not implied.




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