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Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation by Freak_NL on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @10:35AM (#46617230)
You are doing damage control on a public forum. Your writing should be precise and neat if you don't wish to appear unprofessional and goaded into responding. Normally, badly written prose is just annoying; here it is harmful to your cause.
Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation by monooso on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @11:38AM (#46618247)
*poorly written prose
Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation by zxcvasd on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @10:42AM (#46617330)
valuing style over substance is folly.
Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation by cjbgkagh on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @11:13AM (#46617825)
It is clearly a deliberate choice to send the signal of conforming to a particular type of non-conformance. It’s a costly signal because most people will see it as having the emotional maturity of a child, it signals to others that given their social status they can afford that self imposed handicap.
Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation by Brian_K_White on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @07:14PM (#46626008)
It's rarely the mature who talk about maturity.
Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation by account42 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @11:29AM (#46618097)
Perhaps but in this case the style does make it harder to read the substance.
Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation by Brian_K_White on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @07:12PM (#46625996)
Let me inform you (and anyone else for that matter) that one observer has observed 2 samples of writing today, yours and his, and has formed 2 impressions of the writers, and that yours is not the more favorable. Do with this information what you will.