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> I think there's a literal psychological disease

To slightly validate this thought for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disor....

I've personally known people who strongly exhibit these symptoms. There is no accountability (and no "good faith" arguments) for such people and I notice a seemingly similar pattern of thought in the linked blog post. Some excerpts which seem to intentionally shift blame:

> It’s a peculiarity of GitHub, to put it mildly, that making a repo private permanently deletes all watchers and stars.

> GitHub’s conceptual model treats users and organizations as very similar entities when it comes to profiles and repos.

> The problem is that the box looks exactly the same for repos with no commits and stars and for repos with a decade-long history and 55k stargazers and watchers.

I could go on. Anyway, just trying to offer another voice in agreement. Also, that particular call-out of "psychological disease" is especially notable to me for personal reasons. (Not that I'm intending to diagnose this specific blogger; just that the tone of the blog post indeed seems to be blame-shifting, which is a characteristic behavior of those with NPD.)



Yep, I know where you're coming from.

There's a general undercurrent of narcissism across our whole society, even if people aren't formally diagnosable.




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