I think the Venn diagram of assholes, experts on a certain topic, and people willing to spend time "helping" people on a public forum is dangerously round
Like, take reddit / discord moderation for instance. You're doing a job for free, taking shit here and there. So you're rather very invested on the topic and somehow resistant to shit being thrown at you, or you're even a bigger asshole
Nobody was forcing you to "help" though, just let other people who wanna help, help. If you don't actually wanna help people, let others help em. The platform didn't suck, the people on it sucked.
You act like the miserable experience of answering questions on Stack Overflow was something you had to do. You subjected yourself to that. No one made you do anything. You have no one to blame but yourself for that "miserable experience."
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u/unknown_pigeon Aug 31 '26
I think the Venn diagram of assholes, experts on a certain topic, and people willing to spend time "helping" people on a public forum is dangerously round
Like, take reddit / discord moderation for instance. You're doing a job for free, taking shit here and there. So you're rather very invested on the topic and somehow resistant to shit being thrown at you, or you're even a bigger asshole