| If he's causing you stress migraines over in Xfce land, go ban him over there. You're wasting your time trying to convince me you don't like his work, and you're still not going with evidence or substance of a problem. Some people raise a lot of PRs. > Maybe don't criticize without knowing the full situation, eh? Your uninformed, holier-than-thou attempt at dressing me down isn't particularly useful. My key complaint, you'll note, is that you aren't providing any details of the full situation and those that you are providing are uncharitable takes. I mean, you're being nasty to the dude and your complaint seems to be he isn't a senior dev. Fair enough. If you only want to review PRs by senior devs, warn the fellow then block him [0]. Don't go with public shaming as a strategy; HN is a big forum forum, the dude isn't here and he's presumably working under his real name. If you want to be mean because he's done something go ahead. But unless you're going to say he's actually done something bad, I'm going to note you're being mean without a complaint and that is poor form. > And when someone disagreed with his approach, he'd get testy and push his point of view harder. I can't pass that by without noting some irony, given the comment it is in context of. Software devs are known for this. [0] I speak loosely. Mr Lots of PRs could be anyone for all I know. |
You're replying to a post where I just provided more details! Regardless, everything everyone posts here is their opinion, and I'm entitled to mine. You don't have to take my word for it, you can be skeptical, you can think I'm an asshole and a blowhard... that's all fine, and is your prerogative.
> I mean, you're being nasty to the dude and your complaint seems to be he isn't a senior dev. Fair enough.
Seems like it's not "fair enough", since you seem to take such exception with my point of view. I don't think he's not a senior dev -- or rather, I think he's a fairly senior programmer, but isn't so senior in the sense of how he works with other developers. That's a skillset that unfortunately some people don't learn as quickly as they learn to code.
> Don't go with public shaming as a strategy; HN is a big forum forum, the dude isn't here and he's presumably working under his real name.
I don't have a "strategy" here; I'm merely responding to the topic in the thread at hand. If you don't find my point of view valuable, fine, downvote it (or flag it, if you think it's particularly egregious), and move on. If you think it's crass of me to air my opinion of someone else on HN, that's fine too, but I'm still permitted to share that opinion if I feel like it.
> If you want to be mean because he's done something go ahead. But unless you're going to say he's actually done something bad, I'm going to note you're being mean without a complaint and that is poor form.
I don't really see myself as being mean; you claim I haven't said what he's done, and yet you've just replied to a post where I've given more detail into what I believe he did wrong. If you're going to choose to ignore it, or decide it's not "enough" based on whatever rubric you've chosen, then I'm not really sure what to tell you.
> > And when someone disagreed with his approach, he'd get testy and push his point of view harder.
> I can't pass that by without noting some irony, given the comment it is in context of.
> Software devs are known for this.
Hah! Fair point. I think the difference here is that he was an outsider, poking into an established project, trying to push his views on others, when those views were not agreed with. And then continued to push them after being told they weren't agreed with.