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I think a lot of this is just rumors and maybe one or two high profile people. When I go to discord servers for rust and rust libraries, the help I get is as good as, if not better than support from companies I literally pay.

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For years, whenever there was drama and shit-flinging in the OSS world, i looked up the people causing that on github and blocked them. Github has this feature that it warns you when you look at a repository where people you blocked contributed.

If you keep such a list, you'll easily recognize projects you better stay away from. For me, this was one of the reasons to keep away from Rust.

That sounds flawed to me. A large block list will disproportionately warn you about projects that are more open to any external contribution in general. Guilt by association is a weird standard for FOSS contributions. I certainly don't review the external lives of contributors on my repositories.

If you intend to contribute, this is a reasonable way to avoid interaction with the problem peoples.

My point was just about my actual experience with the community versus what everyone says about it. There is a lot of excitement I've noticed which seems to bother some people but I've never had anyone outright call me an idiot or anything and I always get help when I ask for it.

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