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by Dylan16807 2438 days ago
That phrasing (at least without the "to you") is fine when you are genuinely open to saying more. It's not fine as a way to refuse to say more. So you're talking about a completely different context.

If they get aggressive and you then decide that you don't want to explain, that's fine. But that's not what happened here.
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kbenson 2437 days ago
> But that's not what happened here.

Eh, I don't think you can say that definitively. I took it as WaxProlix not wanting to/being unwilling to talk about it because it's boring, and as they found it boring, they thought other people would likely (the word they used, which I think people are ignoring) find it boring as well.

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darshan 2437 days ago
I'd agree with you if it were just the first message. But they then explained exactly what they meant and why, and that's what I offered them feedback on.

They apologized to the person they said it to, and it all seems settled from my perspective.

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