Me vs Typical Members of Ruby/Rails Subreddits

Me vs typical members of the Ruby/Rails subreddits who claim to be gods in Software Development:

• Me: Have you ever presented at RubyConf, or multiple RubyConfs?
• Them: No
• Me: Have you ever presented at RailsConf, or multiple RailsConfs?
• Them: No
• Me: Did you ever win a Fukuoka Ruby Award, or multiple Fukuoka Awards?
• Them: No
• Me: Do you maintain any Open-Source Software Projects, or award-winning Open-Source Software Projects?
• Them: No
• Me: Do you have a Master's Degree in Software Engineering, or a Bachelor in any computing related field?
• Them: No
• Me: Do you have 10 years of experience in Software Engineering at least?
• Them: No
• Me: But, you think you're a god in Software Development?
• Them: Yes

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Totally delusional! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 

I mean, my answer to all those questions is Yes, and yet I don't consider myself a god at all! That's because As a Software Engineering professional, I must avoid all "pride" to be able to always stay unbiased and open-minded about better ways of Software Development instead of getting attached to what I know while unintelligently pretending that makes a god. The moment someone thinks they are a god (or even a god to their former selves) is the moment they stop improving and stop performing as well as they could be.

The Ruby/Rails subreddits are currently the biggest embarrassments of the Ruby community as they often contain people who are very unhumble and unnice despite lacking experience and skills, violating the Ruby principle of MINASWAN (Matz Is Nice And So We Are Nice) as they don't give Software Engineers with interesting creative outside the box ideas the benefit of the doubt or any much-needed support, thus embarrassing themselves when such Software Engineers end up winning awards for their ideas by Matz, the creator of Ruby himself (like Glimmer DSL for Web winning at the Fukuoka Prefecture Future IT Initiative 2025 competition). Such subreddits are so badly managed that mean/unhumble developers are excused/enabled while nice/hard-working developers are usually allowed to get mistreated and piled upon there. Ruby & Rails subreddit members literally downvoted my posts about Covert Discrimination to zero, not realizing unintelligently that this ended up offering a 100% irrefutable proof of how discriminatory and hateful they are as anyone who doesn't discriminate would have immediately offered support and concern without double-standards if discrimination is pointed out, saying something like "discrimination is wrong no matter what kind it is!" without actually discriminating live against the individual raising the issue with discrimination as to prove it. 

The silence of the Ruby community about this incriminates everyone who is silent about this no matter who they are. I don't care if it's DHH, the creators of Puma, maintainers of Ruby/Rails, Ruby podcast/newsletter content authors, or whoever else. they're all guilty of being enemies of the Ruby community if they remain silent about this problem or even encourage it to happen because this problem kills good ideas, degrading the Ruby community as a whole. This forces the Ruby community to regress to least common denominator weak ideas that "the majority approves of". Truly good citizens of the Ruby community will follow MINASWAN and call out this anti-MINASWAN behavior in the Ruby/Rails community subreddits continuously until the situation is fixed. Beware of people who claim to believe in MINASWAN but apply it with double-standards, discriminating covertly against certain people.

This issue with lack of humility resulting in delusional incompetence is not limited to Redditors as it happens with everyone who has zero humility despite being lazy and having no degrees, no extensive work experience, no open-source contributions, no awards at any Software/Tech Competitions, no presentations at local meetups, no talks at software conferences, and no sufficient reading of Software Engineering books. It's so counter-productive and embarrassing how such devs who lack humility try to argue nonsense with Software Engineers who are very passionate about Software Engineering with actions not just words alone, are true hard workers, have a solid university degree or more, have more than 10 years of work experience, maintain many open-source projects, present frequently at their local meetups, talk at software conferences, and win awards in Software/Tech Competitions. Remember that a beginner snowboarder can't "school" Shaun White on snowboarding, but if they were humble, they could learn a lot about snowboarding from Shaun White who's won Gold Medals at the Olympics with his snowboarding skills. This problem with lack of humility might also be a form of Covert Discrimination against specific people that are not listened to no matter how experienced and accomplished they might be while listening to others with similar or even less experience/accomplishments. That's a form of discrimination, so it is still embarrassing given that discrimination is unacceptable.

Lack of humility in inexperienced devs is a recipe for disaster as such devs never improve, getting stuck in their mediocrity forever as a result. When I was a Junior-to-Mid-level Software Developer, I was extremely humble and always did my best to defer to the knowledge of more senior Software Developers while learning from them as much as I could. Ignoring the knowledge/experience/advice of more senior Software Developers is 100% the loss of the less experienced devs. By the way, I am not saying that as a Junior/Mid-level Software Developer, I didn't have some ideas that were better than the ideas of the more senior Software Developers. The more senior Software Developers always kept an open dialog with me to explore ideas that they have not thought of. That said, many of my ideas were ones that they already encountered and tested, finding out for themselves whether they are effective or not. I listened humbly to them when they pushed back on some of my ideas instead of "feeling offended" like so many selfish self-obsessed non-humble devs who don't put serving customers at the top of their priorities.

By the way, this post is assuming good ethical hard-working Senior Software Engineers who listen to less experienced Software Developers with a two-way dialog, not mediocre unethical rude ones who shut down dialog completely. I sometimes see some younger devs getting immaturely caught up with the drama of "experience wars" (having the attitude of "I told them! I made them understand I'm right despite not having as many years of experience as they did!") while completely forgetting customers and the focus on selflessly maximizing the use of past experience of all coworkers on a team with selfless teamwork to humbly learn and do the best work possible for customers.

Thankfully, devs that are not humble enough to learn and improve give the rest of us job security when they make fools of themselves! Thank you!!!