A problem with programmers is that we don't always see that being right isn't necessarily justification for any and all corrective action that you might take.

A problem with programmers is that we don't always see that being right isn't necessarily justification for any and all corrective action that you might take. You can be right and do nothing, you can be right and hear the person out before quietly suggesting some alternatives people might want to look at, you can be right and ask their permission to talk a little about the subject. Sadly some people think that just being right gives you carte blanche but that's rarely true. I don't think anyone is objecting to the existence of discussion or correction here, more the form it took which, if the account is accurate (which it may not be), was right at the "rarely acceptable" end of the spectrum.