Everyone on this thread, from the original article to you seems to agree that sometimes nitpicking is good and sometimes it isn't. But for every minute that ha

Everyone on this thread, from the original article to you seems to agree that sometimes nitpicking is good and sometimes it isn't. But for every minute that has been wasted ignoring and even responding to pedants, days have been lost by people undertaking projects that they never bothered to define. And if you have ever worked with customers to elicit requirements, then you will know that the human race has far more fuzzy thinkers than it does logical pedants. (And of course some of the worst nitpickers are fuzzy thinkers too).