How about "This patch has the following problems...." which would be much more conducive to getting the person to fix them, rather than provoking a flame war.

How about "This patch has the following problems...." which would be much more conducive to getting the person to fix them, rather than provoking a flame war. I've been online since the 80s, and I have seen this attitude over and over, that somehow, SHOUTING and INSULTS are "just part of the process" of engineering culture, and if "you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" It's really an excuse for people, in many cases with ego problems, to justify behavior that most people find distasteful. It's no wonder many people are turned off from STEM fields where this kind of "alpha male" behavior is wide spread. We need more Vulcan and less Klingon, especially in fields where people consider themselves intellectually superior, more educated, and supposedly, more rational.