Nearly 100% FOSS developer teams suffer from exceptionalism and superiority complex

How can I put it so that you understand? Well, when I come to 100,002nd forum, bug tracker, github project, IRC channel, yada, yada, yada, in an attempt to get through to you, FOSS developers, and to report a bug or propose a feature, you more often than not lash out at me. Why you do it? Because you deem yourself infallible altruists who do the unwashed masses of the world a gigantic favor by dispensing your software on us.

Is that true? In some cases, it really is, and I do appreciate it. I always state it up-front: Thank you for devoting your time for the development! But more often than not it is not enough for you, and you do lash out at me.

Dear FOSS developers! You are not unique. You are not the only one. If you are too dumb to understand it, just open Yum, Dnf, Dragora, Apt, or whatever package manager you are aware of, and check the sheer number of Linux distribution packages. There are TENS OF THOUSANDS of them out there. Still, you demand that we register in your support forum, only to be told that we also have to register in your bug tracker, and only then you will bestow our bug reports with your divine attention.

We do not have time for that. You are one of tens of thousands. Once we register in your forum and report our issue there, you become aware of it. Demanding that we instead re-register and re-report is sadistic.

No one forces you to develop and include your software in Linux distributions. You do so for your own reasons. So be consistent and treat bug reports with respect, not disdain. Otherwise you sound hypocritical.

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