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Comment by Ekaros | Hacker News Reader

Community manager is weird place as it is not valued or seen as actually important position. You don't really need education or even significant experience to work in it. And basically when things go normally there is not that great impact. Plus the part of community they usually deal with is not exactly great...

But as seen here it can be also extremely destructive position. Possibly capable of brining down any good will or work done.

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>community they usually deal with is not exactly great

You mean their paying customers/donators?

>But as seen here it can be also extremely destructive position.

That's why you should vet those people and not let in those wishing to use their new position to put down others based on disagreements on personal belief.

This is why no professional organization should conduct themselves on X (or Twitter), period. Open Source software can say stupid shit and still get used because it's actually superior to paid alternatives (eg. MPV). Godot is lucky - if they were a real business, they might have to worry about offending people on the internet.

Plenty of organisations used Twitter to promote their stuff for good.

And now they use X, to self-promote their brand to extremists and misinformed critics.

>Godot is lucky

No matter how lucky you are, everyone's luck streak eventually comes to an end sooner or later.

I'm mortified. What could possibly become of my favorite MIT-licensed software product now?

Has any Open Source product (besides Wordpress, be fair) self-destructed themselves on Twitter before? I didn't use Twitter but none come to mind.

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