Re:Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for...
by treis on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @01:55PM
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Calling people morons isn't being confrontational. It's being an asshole.
Re:Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for...
by sjwright on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @01:39AM
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That's your opinion. Others would say the greater asshole is one who refuses to confront morons with their own moronic behaviour. That person is denying the moron opportunity to self-reflect and improve themselves.
And before you interject, I would also assert that numbing the confrontation with "civility" also nullifies the effect.
Re:Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for...
by hutzlibu on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @03:43PM
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Depends. If people are morons, you can call them like that and not be an asshole, just honest. Don't know about this case, though ...
Re:Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for...
by rtpg on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @09:12PM
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Even being right, you can still be a jerk.
Though being wrong and a jerk is definitely worse in a sense, personally I think that attitudes that qualify you as being a jerk only marginally help you in being honest.
The basic idea is that even if someone is a moron, calling them a moron isn't really.... doing much. Very little information, and a lot of rudeness. Telling them that their patch isn't mergable has more info and less raw rudeness IMO
Yes.
> I don't know where you happen to be based, but this 'you have to be nice' seems to be very popular in the US.
> The same way we have developers and marketing people and legal people who speak different languages, I think we can have some developers who are used to—and prefer—a more confrontational style, and still also have people who don't,
> Maybe it's just because I like arguing," Torvalds added. "I'm just not a huge believer in politeness and sensitivity being preferable over bluntly letting people know your feelings. But I also understand that other people are driven away by cursing and crass language when it all gets a bit too carried away.
Source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/linus...