[constantcrying]

No, I didn't miss that point.

To be honest I would tell you that I don't care about "being an ass", but that would be a lie. I want OP to stop developing this nonsense and spend his time elsewhere. Obviously getting some pushback is necessary for that.

There is no way of saying "you completely wasted your time and should delete your project before someone uses it", without "being an ass".

[fragmede]

> I think what I love most about websites is if they have extremely fancy animations which artificially delay actions and confuse the user. Really awesome to see people spending time, not on how information can be clearly and plainly communicated, but how to obfuscate that information and bury it under eye candy.

You really don't see any other way to word that same sentiment? you couldn't not be an ass and state plainly that there's an excessive amount of eyecandy for your tastes, and that you feel it gets in the way of communication? The sardonic tone of "I think what I love the most..." doesn't set off your internal "wait, hold on, I'm being an ass and might consider rewording my comment" alarm?

Saying "you completely wasted your time and should delete your project before someone uses it" would be a less ass way to say the same thing, even! It's still ass, but less than what you wrote, imo.

But even then, the project isn't harming anyone else, so who are you to decide what they spend their time on? What have you done to cure cancer today and why haven't you done more? People get to choose what they do and as long as they aren't hurting someone else, it's up to them how they want to use their time.

[constantcrying]

You are totally missing the point. Didn't you read my last post?

>You really don't see any other way to word that same sentiment?

The problem with being polite is that the other too easily mistakes the politeness itself for encouragement, even if the comment is entirely negative. Generally ridicule is a good way to get someone to stop, as it makes very clear what you think and discourages continuing. Of course name calling is too easily dismissed and can easily lead to defiance. As discussed before, any kind of politeness is easily ignored or mistaken as positivity.

[ahofmann]

Well, in the future, I will just stop reading when the post is from the user "constantcrying".

[constantcrying]

I could not care any less. My post wasn't even addressed to you, obviously it was addressed to OP, so you not having read it would have been totally irrelevant to me, except you totally misunderstanding the intention of my post and trying to debate me on it. Oh well.