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0 pointssolarkraft2y ago0 comments

Why? It signals that they respect Linus's feelings (and they really don't want to piss him off), which seems quite mature and de-escalative to me.

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language is confrontational and impersonal.

Curious, what kind of response in your opinion would have been better?

you can rewrite the same phrase in more polite language: "sorry, I didn't expect so much push back, I sent these changes with good intentions only".

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0 pointssolarkraft2y ago0 comments

Why? It signals that they respect Linus's feelings (and they really don't want to piss him off), which seems quite mature and de-escalative to me.

language is confrontational and impersonal.

Curious, what kind of response in your opinion would have been better?

you can rewrite the same phrase in more polite language: "sorry, I didn't expect so much push back, I sent these changes with good intentions only".

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse