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How do you differentiate between suggesting and demanding?

• jkoudys 7y ago
  Sentiment analysis.
  • Crinus 7y ago
    No sure what you mean? What sentiment and how would you analyze it?
• Funes- 7y ago
  Besides the actual words from which you can--most of the time--immediately see or at least infer where the comment falls into: politeness and tone. I don't think it's usually hard to know if someone is being aggressive and demanding about it, as far as I can say.
  • Crinus 7y ago
    So the difference is really how you perceive what someone is writing? What if your perception is wrong?
    • Funes- 7y ago
      Isn't that how all communication works? Aren't you relying on your perception and cognitive abilities to interpret my comments to reply to them accordingly? What exactly are we discussing here? Of course my personal interpretations could be wrong; nonetheless, clear-cut cases of users complaining and demonstrating entitlement towards free software developers is something I cannot possibly endorse.
• cwilby 7y ago
  To me demand is a precursor for suggestion, or at least underlines it. Neither are really bad, at least there's communication. That being said, there's a difference between "There seems to be a lot of demand to bring back feature x, how much work would be involved in including it in the next release?" vs some variant of "It sucks you got rid of feature x, bring it back!"
  • Crinus 7y ago
    Personally i'd see the first one as suggestion, but the second one is more complex. If it was just "It sucks you got rid of feature x" i wouldn't see it as neither suggestion nor demand (personally i dislike some changes in GIMP, see my other comments in this thread, and do comment on them if they are brought up, but these are just comments about how i see these changes, not suggestions and especially not demands). The "bring it back" makes all the difference though and yeah, to me that makes a demand.