[Manu40]

I'm upvoting you, because calling it disturbing really doesn't make sense unless egotism is involved. IMHO.

If someone can explain why it's not just egotism, please go right ahead. Otherwise, it really does seem like it. To me at least.

Other comments try to sort of deal with this problem in their explanations about soft and hard quotes, but they don't really deal with the part about it being disturbing.

What's so disturbing about using a feature available on your device? Especially when it does nothing harmful to the user, or recipients of that users communications?

[ShamelessC]

A good-faith interpretation would be that "disturbing" is meant more lightly than that. It's more like saying use of tabs (or spaces) is "disturbing". It is a cultural disagreement on surface level, but not _really_ a disagreement if you were to probe further (I doubt the author thinks people are literally disturbed if they use soft quotes).

Further, if you check my sibling comment you'll see that it is a common mistake for beginner/intermediate coders to paste these quotes into code. This is the source of the "cultural debate" in this instance. They are making a judgement about how this common copy/paste problem shows up in practice. Not a judgement about "proper usage".

It's honestly a little surprising that you took this so personally. It reads rather playfully in my opinion.

[wahnfrieden]

It is egotism