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Re:Abuse is indefensible by david-given on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @08:58AM (#10506462)
I would not want to work in an environment where strong emotional language used to criticize your work is not considered abusive. It's childish and counterproductive. I'm not your enemy, I'm your ally --- making me hate you isn't going to make me want to work with you. If I'm wrong, say so, but do it politely.

I work with someone who has an amazing ability to tell people they're wrong and make them feel good about themselves. You come out of gruelling code reviews feeling hyped and enthusiastic about refactoring your code. It's a skill I'm not very good at and one I want to learn. That's professionalism in action.

Re:Abuse is indefensible by anonbanker on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:33AM (#10507227)
And we can see your net contributions to the kernel source tree as an example of the environment you choose to work in.

but thank you for telling us your opinion anyway.

Re:Abuse is indefensible by dang on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @08:09PM (#10510934)
Please don't post uncivil comments to HN.
Re:Abuse is indefensible by anonbanker on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @08:20PM (#10510966)
I'm normally pretty good with your moderation. This one's a little vague. I worry that if I apply this uniformly, it'll effectively ban snark from my postings.

I'll do my best to honor your request, though.

Re:Abuse is indefensible by dang on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @09:03PM (#10511146)
Thanks for your openness here. You're welcome to email [email protected] if you want to discuss it further. Short answer is that snark in general doesn't break the HN guidelines (though it is deprecated!) but when directed personally it probably does.
Re:Abuse is indefensible by anonbanker on Thursday November 05, 2015 @12:52AM (#10511850)
> deprecated!

totally using that in the future.

Re:Abuse is indefensible by dillera on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:46AM (#10507332)
this