We have a problem - what is it about Ansel and AP? (Edit - concern fully resolved via respectful dialogue)

Quite aside from the impact on one’s fellow human beings, this kind of behavior can come back to haunt the individual far into the future. What if a person applies for a job and the potential employer decides to Google just to see if there’s any further indications of personality, behaviors, etc., as part of the “getting to know” process? Moving a team forward (whether FOSS, paid job, whatever) is all about what the team can do. Uncooperative, dismissive and anti-social behaviors are toxic to a team.

This can have a negative impact long after (theoretically, and even if) a person changes their behaviors. I was a part of an employee search when we ended consideration of an individual because, despite their known technical qualities, they weren’t a team player. In that case it wasn’t really acrimonious – that individual actually enjoyed a good argument and usually ended up doing things their way. From their POV it wasn’t a negative thing, but it wasn’t team-friendly and they missed consideration for the job because of it.

To paraphrase Marc Antony, “The online behaviors that men do lives forever after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”

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