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by JamesBarney 1740 days ago
A bad PR can mean soo many different things.

Ranging from "I wouldn't have implemented it that way" to "this opens up a huge security hole".

Security issues shouldn't be allowed in. But a lot of "maintainability" issues have negligible if any gains, and real costs like

it takes time to fix

could introduce new bugs

creates bad feelings between coworkers