https://monero.town/comment/38729
This comment is very rude and lacks the necessary information to change someone’s thoughts about Monero. But this does not warrant calling this person a “glowie”. He is a known developer in the crypto (cryptography and cryptocurrency) community and has participated for many, many years. We do not know his circumstances for this kind of behavior, but the responses to his behavior need to be addressed. Calling someone a “glowie” seemingly out of thin air does nothing but discredit the Monero community and give us the image of paranoid fools who will seemingly lunge at any privacy software to appease our constant paranoia, as the term itself was used as commonly as the very paranoid schizophrenic man who coined the term.
I fully respect the sentiment of this post. Baseless name-calling is definitely counterproductive, but he didn’t really approach with a positive attitude either, right? I absolutely agree with you on most of your points here ethically, but would like to inquire about the intentions involved here, considering the circumstances.
It’s certainly rude and precisely good fun to call someone a glowie–It’s also not an honest argument, right? No need for treating it that way either, right? Calling a codebase shitty without explaining any logic or further premises beyond “I worked on a monero-fork bro, trust me; monero is honeypot–if you can’t discern that from auditing the code, then you are 0 iq pleb not worth the time” is also the epitome of deceit b/c you can say that about most codebases ffs.
Idk, maybe jeff(if we can even assume it’s the real jeff that the crypto fam is familiar with) has laid out his arguments and critiques better elsewhere and just intentionally chose a tragic post to say “I told you so” in the worst-spirited form possible(0 empathy and respect for the post being commented on), but I have doubts because he also refused to meet anyone halfway with the slightest shred of evidence or logic