I can't agree with this. For 2 reasons.

A) "On a par with them"? "Geniuses"? "smarter than 99% of the world*"?

Yeah, I used to think stuff like that about myself. Too much. It's wonderful to let go of all that nonsense and learn some humility.

There's any number of very clever people in the world. A lot of them have egos to match. Show me someone truly bright with the imagination to be very modest as well. Now THAT is something special - when it happens.

B) It seems perverse to be lacking in social graces and do nothing about it. Interpersonal skills get you jobs, they help you do well in a job once you're in it. If you haven't got any, probably best for you to work on it, not celebrate the fact too much...

There are enough "nice" people on eg: Perlmonks to make rudeness unnecessary. If we work on an OSS project together do we really *have* to accept behaviour that in the real world would just get people down? who does that help?

oh and C) I don't get great pleasure from the silly stereotypes we get labelled with. :)

*That still makes 5 million or so people smarter than you, think of all those people!!

UPDATE: Yes I was amusingly forthright here wasn't I, considering the subject matter?

In reply to Re: Please remember that geeks have their own social mores. by Muggins
in thread Please remember that geeks have their own social mores. by dragonchild

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