Y’all realize that accepting criticism and mining it for good ideas is just what you have to do when you run community projects, right? And that lack of criticism means you’re failing, because people don’t criticize things they’ve given up on, right?

The core problem with all social software is that it winds up being run by people who love software more than people.

@fraying Thats a broad brush to be painting with, homie. Can’t those of us who love software ALSO love people? I don’t care to be characterized as some affectless zomboid zero-empathy techno-hermit. I make machines do machine things so people who I care about are free to do people things.

@randywaterhouse what? A one sentence post lacks nuance? Almost like I was making one simple point that, were it not to apply to you, personally, might still be true in general? Wild!

@fraying If we’re going to pick nits on semantics… You did make an unequivocal and definitive statement, which included the term “all social software” - If there was a disclaimer to be made, you should have made it instead of assuming your audience thought exactly as you do. Use your words!

@randywaterhouse @fraying Really getting that "loves people" vibe here yeah

@eevee @fraying I make the lives of my users better by using technology to reduce drudgery and repetition. This requires precision in word and deed. If I didn’t care (about my people) so much, I wouldn’t make a point of arguing the semantics of blanket statements that influence others to dismiss what I choose to spend my career doing.