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Some of the comments here reminded me of another recent post, and in particular these statements...

>Do not start an open source project if you need praise, warmth and love from your fellow human beings. [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11053810 ]

>Folks forget that most FOSS work is volunteer & berating the hackers who make it won't help one bit. [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11054809 ]

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Well, the front page did recently have people complaining about a bunch of paid products (github, twitter, everything IBM does). I'd expect us to treat open source projects like any other, and part of that is by noting their failings. Incentivising fixing those (or doing the fixing) does happen in different ways, but this isn't a development forum :)

I'd say:

> don't post anything publicly if you want only [warm fuzzy feelings]"

There is 'total compensation' to consider, though. If you're getting paid big money to work on something, you can probably swallow the criticism fairly easily. But if you're not being paid any money, and there are zero warm fuzzy feelings, it's harder to stay motivated.

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