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Witty wording is sometimes rather problematic #14

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skade opened this issue May 26, 2013 · 3 comments
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Witty wording is sometimes rather problematic #14

skade opened this issue May 26, 2013 · 3 comments

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@skade
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skade commented May 26, 2013

Some of the wording can be misunderstood, especially:

... who would rather be commenting on issues instead of pushing code.

Read correctly (or wrongly :)), this could be read as characterizing this user as one of those two:

Statler and Waldorf

This especially applies to users that do a lot of issue triage and document strange behaviours they find on projects bugtrackers - which is definitely a very important task.

@thieman
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thieman commented May 31, 2013

Similarly, it compared me to a similar user with less of a comment and issue-creating history and said...

With this in mind, it's worth noting that <redacted> is less of a whiner.

@haneefmubarak
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So perhaps those should be changed to who would rather be commenting than pushing code, but still pushes code.. However, for the whining part, I believe that it is supposed t be a joke.

haneefmubarak added a commit to haneefmubarak/osrc that referenced this issue Jul 15, 2013
Added various things here and there, fixed issue dfm#14.
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dfm commented Jul 17, 2013

With help from @haneefmubarak, I think that I've made this wording more palatable:

"…spends a lot of time commenting on issues between pushes."

And I just got rid of the "whiner" one. As I'm sure you know, strange things can seem funny when you do a hack marathon 😉!

I'll push it out in the next version. Thanks for bringing this up!

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