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Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by dang on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:27PM (#21275156)
The GP comment can be made better simply by removing words, not adding any.
Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by hanselot on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:41PM (#21275331)
Please omit ye words of terror, lest ye inflict your verbal assassinations upon our poor fragile temperaments. Don't know of anything more scared of a little heat than a snowflake. [1]https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/why-does-formation-of-...
Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by dang on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:49PM (#21276269)
It's a question of which words to remove. Information-free swipes make for a lower signal/noise ratio and cause feedback loops that rapidly escalate. The risk isn't "a little heat", it's scorched earth. The purpose is not to suppress intelligent discourse but to keep the forum from destroying itself.
Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by hanselot on Thursday October 17, 2019 @08:27AM (#21281269)
Which words would you remove from Shakespeare to make his plays objectively better?
Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by dang on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:02PM (#21284048)
At this point you've moved the goalposts off the pitch.