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It's a form of bikeshedding, in that it involves discussing the superficial details that are easy to form an opinion about.
by DC-3 8y ago
It's a form of bikeshedding, in that it involves discussing the superficial details that are easy to form an opinion about.
- TallGuyShort 8y agoOh my God they're literally bike shedding bike shedding.
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- DC-3 8y agoI'm obviously gunning for inclusion in webshit weekly :-)
- jchw 8y agoI mean, the term bikeshedding was created to describe a specific phenomena where people in an organization tend to put disproportionate consideration into trivial design issues. Particularly, as an example, the color of a bikeshed. Here someone is just pointing out a semantically incorrect or misleading statement. And we can say that's nitpicky, to a degree. It lacks some of the other nuance of the term 'bikeshedding,' though. If anything that was nitpicking also was bikeshedding, then what's the point of inventing such a term? And yes, I'm being nitpicky about the term bikeshedding, and proud of it :p (P.S.: As far as comparing the word nitpicking to bikeshedding, I think nitpicking already implies disproportionate attention to small details; hence the 'nit' part of it.)