> Also, no one is going to care in a day.

You should ask Sumit Bhatia about that. ;)

Is there a word for a statement which inadvertently supports the opposing position in a debate?

No. You have earned the right to coin it.

Freudian burn? idk, but yes very good observation

If I ever knew who that was, I have long forgotten.

Who?

What did the guy do?

> An email requesting system access went out to all employees . It triggered a reply to all frenzy that resulted in my blackberry pinging constantly for over an hour with people replying-to-all asking to be removed from the distribution list. Even Mike Lazaridis replied to all asking this to be stopped. Then as different parts of the globe started work, they would reply to all. Classic evening. I think system admins eventually shut down the frenzy at server level. Some of the replies were hilarious though. I think I still have some screenshots somewhere.

https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/qstmls/sumit_bha...

He submitted a PR which adds an image to the Readme file (if i see that correctly). The PR notified 400k users...

Never heard of him

> Verify the pull request and merge asap" is a bit ridiculous

I see you're not familiar with Indian-English. What he said sounds quite "reasonable" (if not a bit unnecessarily, but understandably urgent) to someone like me (am Indian).

How is it understandably urgent? It seems like the least urgent merge request I've ever seen.

Downvoting folks aren't understanding the context.

Understandable is in the Indian context. Generally a lot of things in India are slow/delayed so it's pretty common for people to want everything "fast" (which is probably "regular speed" in the US etc). I agree the content is hardly urgent, but for an Indian everything is urgent.

It is not reasonable at all for "non-Indian" English -- still that would perhaps be a reasonable explanation, just he should learn it is not reasonable.