ext_7991 ([identity profile] keristor.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] avevale_intelligencer 2009-08-25 03:17 pm (UTC)

My point is that if you are going to pick those sorts of nits you need a thick skin. I don't much care if someone thinks I'm a pedantic twit when I pull them up on that sort of point, but if you're going to get hurt when they talk back then -- well, it's your life, I have no right to tell you not to do it, but if I were going to get hurt by it then I might just learn that they don't want to be corrected and not both (or having learnt that they weren't interested not dig any deeper).

Particularly since I suspect that the authors of the video have no idea about your correction, so it isn't even going to the correct people. Most of those who do see your correction will either agree with you (I suspect the majority of the pedantic geeks) or will dismiss it as irrelevant and a distraction from the actual point, which was that any 'open' project attracts people who (for whatever reasons) try to 'poison' the project and discussions and project leaders (and other people in discussions) need to have ways of coping with that.

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