This technique is most important of all when you are applying for a position in which you will advertise the company to the public. Every public relations professional knows that the best public face for your company is presented by people who have spent months campaigning to damage the company’s reputation with baseless accusations and wild insults!
I'm trying to stay out of forum drama as much as possible, partly because I'd much rather spend my time on the forum actually talking about bitcoin and partly because most of it is petty as hell, but this is the thing I understand the least about this whole situation.
Let's say I'm hiring for a position in my company. I have two candidates.
Candidate A will take on board any suggestions or recommendations, not cause any drama or conflict, and generally just get their head down and get the work done.
Candidate B perceives every suggestion or recommendation as a personal attack, causes unending unnecessary drama and conflict, continually brings up their race/gender/sexual orientation even when no one else has, emails HR constantly, but will also get the work done.
I am picking candidate A 10 times out of 10. Even if candidate B does slightly or even fairly better work, I'm
still picking candidate A because candidate B is going to soak up so much of my time, decrease my output, and decrease the output of my other team members.