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by mjw1007 3279 days ago
I think you're a bit too harsh.

If you maintain widely-used software, you're going to get a lot of bug reports which are in fact user error, and you don't have a great deal of time to spend on each report.

So it's easy to mistakenly dismiss a report when it contains at least one user error, or even something close to a user error, even when it also exposes a real bug.

(It's less forgivable to continue being loudly wrong once other people have pointed out real problems more clearly.)

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I think you're a bit too harsh.

Yes, that might be true. I never complained about him before "in public" so there was some steam to release. However I hope I still gave enough clear thought on how I think he is acting wrong repeatedly.

(It's less forgivable to continue being loudly wrong once other people have pointed out real problems more clearly.)

Which only makes it worse. There is a good deal of serious replies to the issue, but because of some trolling, the whole discussion is considered invalid by the maintainers, or at least they make it look like that by just closing it without any further comment. Only about an hour ago did poettering reply again giving some more insight, but the damage has been done and next time there will probably be even more trolling.