NPM Bans Terminal Ads

I very much doubt that assertion is true.

> But instead of attacking the guy for trying,

I didn't see many attacks generally in the comments here, directed at the guy for trying generally (a few ad-hominems were thrown, but you could cure all forms of cancer and still attract some of those!). Most were criticising him for trying that way. "Bad idea, this is why I think so, please don't". Maybe the filtering here was sufficient to hide the worse reactions, and things were far less civil elsewhere.

My tuppence worth?

Adverts and other superfluous junk do not belong in build/install/other logs like that, for technical reasons rather than (or as well as) personal preference ones.

The same defences of the idea ("I need to make ends meet somehow", "But I'm only sending a couple of lines to each person", ...) apply equally to spam email so the idea shows the same lack of empathy about potentially inconveniencing others which might be a source of more aggressive reactions. As the title of the article he quotes (in his reaction to those reactions) says: "Open Source is Not About You", it isn't just about him either. And with regard to the quoted text "and the scope of their entitlement extends only to their own projects": exactly, other people on other projects that have the code as a dependency are potentially affected by these adverts - his idea was itself stepping outside the scope he expects others to keep to. Of course he is free to go ahead anyway, though others are equally free to fork the codebase to remove the adverts.

Again, this is not intended as a criticism for trying at all. This is just stating that I think this particular attempt is a pretty bad idea.

- In the beginning was the jQuery style guidelines, which started for jQuery but were eventually for general JS https://contribute.jquery.org/style-guide/js/

- Then there was idiomatic.js, from a massive bunch of JS community leaders https://github.com/rwaldron/idiomatic.js/, evolving some of the principles of jQuery style guidelines.

- Then AirBnB made their own style guides because they didn't realise the jQuery guidelines or Idiomatic existed

- Feross and some other people made 'Standard' JS, ignoring the previous 3 standards, and said it's standard because, well: https://github.com/standard/standard#but-this-isnt-a-real-we... (see 'tape' and how it's 'the only test framework which supports TAP' because the tape author invented TAP). https://standardjs.com/

- Currently most JS devs who have been around a while use Prettier instead of eslint because it formats the code rather than just complaining (recent versions of Standard apparently do this too, but that came later) https://prettier.io/

Feross himself is awesome. The name 'standardJS' was a poor choice.