Is it possible sites like Worse Than Failure do more harm then good to our Development community?   I caught and episode of  TWit today  and an interesting idea emerged could the open source community be stiffed because programmers are worried they would be publicly ridiculed for what they publish?  I know its hard to believe with episodes such as our recent FizzBuzz: the Programmers's Stairway to Heaven were almost we see almost all readers opening them selves to public ridicule by posting adhoc solutions to FizzBuzz 

While  The daily WTF is fun, it must strike fear into the hearts of programmers everywhere what if my code/project shows up?   We've all had our moments of writing poor/lazy code.  What happens when this gets out, do programmers have ego's to damage?  It seems the typical programmer is quite the  introvert.  So what would this type of public mockery affect you?  Would you keep your ideas to your self? would you avoid help to avoid criticism?

Its not only Large web sites that lambaste the programmers for humor.  No you need only browse over to your favorite forum where you can see  people ridiculed for asking questions some one else has deemed childish or stupid.  What breads this type of hostility in our community?  Is it just human nature or some thing else?