It feels like it's really hard to find a non-emotionally charged conversation about Codesmith (particularly from detractors)

I completely agree that more Codesmith conversations should be about the substance. I'm in a bucket where I complain about people not discussing HOW Codemsith works and instead just saying fluffy reasons to go there or fluffy and vague complaints.You need to know HOW it works to know if it's a good fit for you. I'm frequently involved in controversial discussions on here to try to steer them to more concrete discussions and present more sides. If someone posts a vague positive or negative answer, you won't get more details and valuable discussion by yelling at them. The most frequent DMs I get are 'I really respect your consistent and thorough comments' or 'I'm at Codesmith and can't believe how accurate and representative most of your comments are' and that's my goal.

\+1 to this, talk to people and ask what it's like. Like zoomed out - people exaggerate their OSP on their resumes and in interviews - but it's not like Codesmith is like spending 10 hours a day teaching people how to stretch the truth without officially lying and that fact doesn't represent the vibe and feel of Codesmith as a whole.

I have push notifications turned on for every single post in this subreddit yeah and I'm an inbox zero person where anytime, anywhere I try to check push notifs ASAP of all kinds (and I aggressively manage them so they aren't spam) My day job is coding and the green boxes are the proof http://github.com/mnovati My priority is helping Formation Fellows with advice, bug fixes, and new features and managing my team and I spend about 10 to 30 mins on Reddit a day (depending on the day) I'm actually glad you asked, because a leader at Codemsith just assumed because I'm so on top of things on Reddit that I'm a 'dark disturbed individual who spends all day on Reddit trying to take down Codesmith' and it's always better to ask instead of assuming and making such strong conclusions.