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Toxic linux communities moment: (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm a proponent of RTFM, (real documentation has a lot more thought put into it then some random response you would get on IRC or a mailing list, and it's rude to ignore the effort the documentation author put into real documentation) but I always link the user to the appropriate documentation instead of just telling them off.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you want to support that, a good first step would be to improve TFM, because much of it is far too dense to actually read. Technical writing, knowing how to summarize things through human knowledge,, is a critical skill for tech businesses, and most open-source programmers lack it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

The closed-source devs I've worked with also lack it.

This is why the humanities are important.