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NancyLebovitz comments on [LINK] Analysis of why excluding hostile people is worth it - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: NancyLebovitz 09 July 2013 04:01PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 10 July 2013 01:20:18PM 3 points [-]

Could you expand on that?

Comment author: David_Gerard 10 July 2013 02:08:42PM *  3 points [-]

I mean that there is a competition element in social relations if the projects are on an equivalent level. e.g. OpenBSD versus everyone; Apache OpenOffice versus LibreOffice; and this competition element will help the project that's nicer to work with gain participants, and this will help select against both assholery and scapegoating. This of course requires competing projects of comparable quality in the first place, which is not so common.