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[–] Ostrakon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Man, this was literally as simple as "Oh, wow, wasn't aware this guy was a turd" and put a PR up to remove or change the quote. Resisting this at all makes it look so much worse. I do think that the DHH controversy is a little overblown but certainly any reasonable person can see that an endorsement from this dude is not something it makes sense to advertise.

I do sympathize with being a maintainer and fielding mob requests, like honestly who actually cares about a quote on the web page. I do think a lot of folks whip themselves into a frenzy over basically nothing, and this feels like an example of that - that he made WAY worse by not just immediately addressing it. It's not like people were going full torches and pitchforks, but this dude immediately reacted so defensively.

[–] unglueclass23@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Resisting this at all makes it look so much worse.

Maybe he had a bad day ¯_(ツ)_/¯