[rendaw]

But having bad crypto doesn't mean you have to be aggressive... in fact if the critic's goal is to actually improve the situation (and not just vent or demonstrate their superiority) then being polite and actually answering the questions might go a long way further to remedy it.

[borski]

You’re right. The problem is that after repeating the same thing hundreds of times to different developers you can develop a bit of an anger toward the situation, as you see the same mistakes play out over and over.

I’m not defending it, but I can understand where it comes from.

[mook]

What's the point of filing the issue if you're already fed up giving adequate answers then? For a random open source project I'd definitely expect people who file issues to help solve them collaboratively.

[lelanthran]

That was my question too, honestly.

Why is soatok filing the issue if they are unwilling to explain it in a way that doesn't drive traffic to their blog?

Filing an issue and subsequently refusing to elaborate is also awfully suspect.

[borski]

I don’t disagree with you. The idea is that there is a lot of information online about how to do it right. I would have stayed to explain, because it’s confusing af, but I think that’s what happened. I don’t think soatok is intentionally self-serving, but I don’t know them personally.