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by Nexxxeh 1764 days ago
I think you're being extremely generous by ascribing any ambiguity to it. Especially as there is context.

That's not how I read it, I think almost everyone would read it as Rapptz did.

Tone is difficult to gauge over the Internet. Maybe Mason just messed up how it would be interpreted. I suspect we've all done that. I know I have.

But the term "martyr" is a really loaded one. This didn't feel like a playful tone misjudged to me.

Both of the Discord employees in that were screenshotted come out of this looking really bad. Unprofessional and hostile. The question is just whether they were actually also hostile, or just unprofessional.