To motivate people, talk about the context of the work to be done

Re:To motivate people, talk about the context of the work to... by hinkley on Friday November 15, 2019 @01:37PM (#21547432)

It's becoming a huge peeve of mine when people seem to have forgotten what thread they're in and take a statement out of all reasonable context or nitpick about things that do not materially degrade the point (quotes are a little fussy that way, who knows how people will interpret them).

On reddit they'd just invoke /r/lostredditor

My latest strategy is to hit back with humor. I don't know if it's working, but early results are positive.

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Re:To motivate people, talk about the context of the work to... by Rainymood on Friday November 15, 2019 @01:51PM (#21547573)

>It's becoming a huge peeve of mine when people seem to have forgotten what thread they're in and take a statement out of all reasonable context or nitpick about things that do not materially degrade the point (quotes are a little fussy that way, who knows how people will interpret them).

Welcome to HN

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Re:To motivate people, talk about the context of the work to... by hinkley on Friday November 15, 2019 @02:14PM (#21547791)

At no point did I claim it's new behavior. It's just getting old.

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Re:To motivate people, talk about the context of the work to... by zozbot234 on Friday November 15, 2019 @01:52PM (#21547584)

More like "Welcome to teh Internet"

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Re:To motivate people, talk about the context of the work to... by umvi on Friday November 15, 2019 @02:26PM (#21547907)

It's called pedantry and lots of programmers seem afflicted by it.

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