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interpreting his words on a literal basis , the PR submitter isn't being directly impolite ... if you will , place yourself in the shoes of the repository main

interpreting his words on a literal basis , the PR submitter isn't being directly impolite ... if you will , place yourself in the shoes of the repository maintainer. a random person (with a personal agenda) has popped up trying to sell you a solution (that he doesn't understand) to a problem (that you don't see as problematic). after you spending literal hours patiently explaining why the proposition is not acceptable , this random person still continues attempting to sell his solution. do you see any impoliteness in the reframed scenario ?

kleiba 8mo ago
I think there's nothing wrong with trying to sell your solution, and I'm skeptical about the "literal hours" that you claim. The way I interpret this thread is that the PR poster had a certain itch and came up with a vibe-coded solution that helped him. Now he's trying to make that available for others too. The maintainers don't want it because it's too large a PR to review properly and because they don't want to have to maintain it afterwards. I can totally see both positions. I was just referring to the fact that - in my opinion - unlike others here, his writing did not appear impolite to me. But you know, that's just me. I thought that he was trying to sell his code, and it's not unusual to get rejected at first, so I can't blame him for trying to defend his contribution. All I'm saying is that I thought he did so in a respectful manner, but of course you could argue that the whole endeavor was already an act of impoliteness, in a way?!
- Aeglaecia 8mo ago
  that is indeed what is being argued , is it possible to screw someone over politely ?
- bwfan123 8mo ago
  > his writing did not appear impolite to me I learnt something from this thread. That, respectfulness and politeness are more from intentions/actions than from speech alone. Politeness of language without any respect for the actual function of that speech is pointless. Indeed, that this what the LLMs are trained for. Form over function. And many humans get fooled by it and are also clueless like the person dropping the steaming turd of a PR.

kleiba 8mo ago

I think there's nothing wrong with trying to sell your solution, and I'm skeptical about the "literal hours" that you claim. The way I interpret this thread is that the PR poster had a certain itch and came up with a vibe-coded solution that helped him. Now he's trying to make that available for others too. The maintainers don't want it because it's too large a PR to review properly and because they don't want to have to maintain it afterwards. I can totally see both positions. I was just referring to the fact that - in my opinion - unlike others here, his writing did not appear impolite to me. But you know, that's just me. I thought that he was trying to sell his code, and it's not unusual to get rejected at first, so I can't blame him for trying to defend his contribution. All I'm saying is that I thought he did so in a respectful manner, but of course you could argue that the whole endeavor was already an act of impoliteness, in a way?!

Aeglaecia 8mo ago
that is indeed what is being argued , is it possible to screw someone over politely ?
bwfan123 8mo ago
> his writing did not appear impolite to me I learnt something from this thread. That, respectfulness and politeness are more from intentions/actions than from speech alone. Politeness of language without any respect for the actual function of that speech is pointless. Indeed, that this what the LLMs are trained for. Form over function. And many humans get fooled by it and are also clueless like the person dropping the steaming turd of a PR.