This is a very refreshing discussion! I love attention getting paid to this topic - that words matter, and even have a palpable cost (when negative) to open source.

I often noodle on the subject of how people behave on the internet. I happened to catch my near-80-year-old mom troll Matthew McConaughey on facebook. First of all, WHY is she following Matthew McConaughey on facebook? Secondly, my mom is a perfectly nice, reasonable person that raised us to treat others how we want to be treated…why does she think it’s ok to post nasty comments on the internet? Is it because it’s “not real life”? I almost think your average person’s normal viewpoint leans “troll” on the internet. I keep forgetting to ask her about it.

I wonder where we’ll be in a decade or two, or three. Maybe because of discussions like this ep, we’ll have evolved and look back at the archives and say, “wow, look how savagely people treated each other back then”.