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by madeofpalk 2314 days ago
Granted this is from my experience of working in in-house dev teams (rather than say open source contributions), but very often I find there is no single objective right way to do something, certain things are just subjective opinions, and I'm not going to pretend that after looking at a PR on GitHub.com, that I know more than the person working on it (of course, there are exceptions, but this is what I find to be true generally).

If I see something that looks wrong, my assumption is that I'm missing some kind of knowledge or context that lead to the way for the code to be written the way it is. So I ask questions or offer suggestions or my thoughts. I'm definitely not going to tell someone to do something.

But at the end of the day, very rarely do I see something that should be a critical blocker for a piece of work, so I'll share my thoughts, approve, and leave it to the perfectly capable original submitter to do with that what they want.