Comment by m0zg

The surest way to reduce the amount of such derision is by making people responsible for fixing the things they criticize, at the team culture level. It's fun to have a laugh at the expense of someone who's no longer on the team, it's much less fun if you then have to spend weeks or months of your own time to fix it, with the possibility of still producing shit for the same reasons why the original code wasn't too hot.