It’s not just a choice of which jargon but of (if and) when you explain the jargon and (if and) how you contextualize it.
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Much FP-related writing uses the max number of jargon terms and explains none of them. This says: GO AWAY OUTSIDERS.
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And being beginner-hostile by omission is very revealing of the community’s values.
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Beginner apathy is far more common than beginner hostility. Never actually seen beginner hostility.
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Do you know ’s concept of the Help Vampire? It’s a dynamic that leads to beginner hostility: slash7.com/2006/12/22/vam
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that sounds like a problem created by beginners though? Not an intentional program of hazing or something?
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