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The three tweets quoted on the post are derisive of the project. They're not ad-hominem. True, they don't go into details, but those are 140-character tweets. T
by einpoklum 4y ago
The three tweets quoted on the post are derisive of the project. They're not ad-hominem. True, they don't go into details, but those are 140-character tweets. They are excessively snarky and negative, but - I would also have a negative opinion of a sed alternative written in node.js and with a fraction of the features. On the other hand, the tweeters should have given the thing the benefit of the doubt, treated it as a newbie/personal experiment project, and just not published a tweet about it.
My $.02 anyway.
- WesolyKubeczek 4y agoIn 280 characters, you can just have twice the amount of snark. Just look at... what the hell, look at Twitter as it is today. It's not like you can't be wholesome in 140 characters or less. People have been texting wholesome things to one another in 160 characters or less since SMS, and non-Latin-alphabet folks in 70 or less. But peer-to-peer SMS doesn't make you a self-proclaimed standup comedian complete with an audience and limelight, doesn't give you likes and retweets, and Twitter gives it all to you. This is all the difference: engagement and gamification. You see, quite often, when you criticize the project, it has the tendency to leak to the person. Even if that person's hide is exceptionally thick, it just takes the right amount of acid to eat through it.
- einpoklum 4y agoWith 280 characters, you can very well say "I noticed [project]. While [some mitigation of snarkiness], [snark]".