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You know, if the way you wrote your comment wasn't that much condensing, the people who like to customize to no end might learn from it.
by toni 10y ago
You know, if the way you wrote your comment wasn't that much condensing, the people who like to customize to no end might learn from it.
- gcp 10y agoHuh? My point was that if you changed your environment you probably understand what changes broke the automation and are able to fix it yourself.
- toni 10y agoYou gave some pretty great tips for using right tools, but (at least for me)it sounded like a grumpy nerd. You could write your comment without accusing tweakers of digging themselves out of their own hole and all that unnecessary tone. In that case it would have more power to teach people something new.
- reitanqild 10y agoHe was most likely aiming at someone like me and I'm totally OK with it. In fact I'm more scared by people trying to silence him/her.
- toni 10y agoThe grandparent was complaining about the complexity of building Firefox. Something that I truly sympathize with. I certainly didn't want to silence the parent, but tried to point out that having a much more helpful tone will reach his message much farther.
- koverstreet 10y agoDid you wake up on the wrong side of the bed or something? Maybe reread this comment thread later, and compare the tone of the comments.
- disordinary 10y agogcp seemed perfectly reasonable and offered helpful advice, I detected no trace of contempt in there at all. But that's the problem with context and text. Emoji FTW.
- skj 10y agoIt's almost always a mistake to assume a tone for a comment on the internet.
- hxegon 10y agoSomething something only 40% of intent comes across in text (couldn't find source, if someone can, please link)