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Re:Notepad++ v8.4.3: Unhappy Users' Edition by vultour on Friday July 08, 2022 @08:26AM (#32026312)
Maybe we just use a different definition of "constructive feedback", but my emotional perception of a comment has nothing to do with the classification.

"You suck and your software is a piece of crap" is not constructive feedback because there's no details to act on.

"Fuck you the submit button is obscured by the footer" is constructive even if the message has a personal attack.

You might choose not to act on comments due to emotions, but I don't think it invalidates any constructive feedback contained within.

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Re:Notepad++ v8.4.3: Unhappy Users' Edition by hatenberg on Friday July 08, 2022 @05:41PM (#32027609)
And this right here is why a large number of engineers never make it pas mid-level. Thinking that the only things that matter are technical and the social aspects of communication are just unnecessary complications
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Re:Notepad++ v8.4.3: Unhappy Users' Edition by scraptor on Friday July 08, 2022 @09:12PM (#32030249)
Understanding the things people are actually telling you without getting distracted by anger is also part of communications. You don't have to engage with the rude users but their problems are just as real.
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