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Comment by mickael-kerjean | Hacker News Reader

Yesterday I received this message from a random github user: "Seriously. No SSO at all in free version? This is poor. Very very greedy and poor" [1]

If you do not spend a lot of time explaining things at length, people will link back to how much an asshole you are.

[1]: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/issues/661#issu...

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In the words of Lizzo: "Let 'em say what they gonna say. They gonna feel how they gonna feel." Back in the day, we called this "feeding the trolls", and the advice hasn't changed: ignore them. You don't owe every single person online any part of your short, precious life. Issues have delete buttons (and there are other hosted SCMs besides GitHub). I encourage liberal use thereof.

The expired certificate on your own website (linked on your gh profile) doesn't fill me with confidence to hire you as a consultant though.

I'd at least make sure the cert is up to date.

Simply ignore users like that. If someone actually important brings up that instance as you 'being an asshole', then explain your reasoning then. If that doesn't calm them down, they're probably not someone worth working with.

I'll also point out the supportive comments in that thread; sure there's always gunna be some negativity, but there's also positive people. Focus on those.

Close. Report as spam.

You've got the comment after you've explained at length

I would pull my hair out.

Cool project, gave it a star and bookmarked it.

So what? Fuck 'em. It's your project and it's open source. If they want the feature so bad they can add it themselves.

Ew gross

LOL all that user does is open issues for free support?

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