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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/BacchusIX on 2026-08-03 15:34:42+00:00.

I just saw some 16 year old kid get tore apart in the selfhosted subreddit for posting a vibed project he was proud of and it gave me a new appreciation for the civility and helpfulness of this community. I've been apart of the Home Assistant community for several years now and, while I've seen some rude comments I've never seen the outright attacks and piss-poor human behavior I just witnessed.

Yes, there can be a lot of repeat questions and posts in this subreddit, I know I get annoyed sometimes when I'm scrolling through and see the same stuff over and over again. I often have to remind myself I was new at this once as well, and even though I had some programming experience coming into it, I was still unfamiliar with yaml and jinja and had to learn them. This community has been great at least pointing me in the right direction even if they couldn't answer my question outright. I try to do the same now as well as I can.

So I wanted to just give a shout out to EVERYONE here for making this a true open source community where we make everyone feel welcome and learn together.

I'm an old, salty retired infantry sergeant, so don't expect too many mushy posts like this from me, haha.