[ravicious]

>> When giving feedback, some people say that they are brutally honest

> As someone who prefers giving and receiving terse feedback... I would suggest that there's nothing wrong with brutal honesty for type of people who appreciate receiving it.

It seems to me that you cited the fragment of donw's comment about "brutally honest", but ineffective feedback ("The module you wrote is crap because your code sucks and is hard to maintain.") and then started arguing that some people like receiving terse feedback.

But won't you agree that the example of "brutally honest" feedback wasn't in any way terse and that "brutally honest" doesn't necessarily mean terse?

I find the second part of the "kind" feedback much more terse: "Breaking those big methods and classes into smaller separate objects and functions would help a lot".