Jason Estey

Sometimes I wish I could downvote tweets. You can’t distill every message to a TL;DR; without losing meaning and context. The point she was trying to make genuinely seems difficult to get across in a single sentence.

hah, would you rather not be heard on the internet, or be heard being an asshole on the internet?

The thing is - just because someone has been an asshole on the Internet doesn't automatically discredit the intelligent things they have said.

Yes it does. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ See also: RMS, aka the whole reason the free software movement remains marginalized even among engineers

There are many other folks saying things with equal or more insight on the same topics, who AREN’T assholes. Being an asshole is like sending a cover letter with the wrong company’s name when applying for a job. Your resume can be discarded at that point, no matter what’s on it.

Not because the people doing the screening are mean or arbitrary, but because it indicates a lack of care that will carry over into your work. Similarly, being an asshole indicates a deficit that compromises all of your thought processes, to some degree.