[jodrellblank]

“Maybe don’t do that?” does not mean “I support you doing that” no matter how unfamiliar you are with it as an idiom.

“I cut my finger with the kitchen knife”

“Maybe don’t hold it by the blade”

It’s something along the lines of sarcastic and deliberately unhelpful because “duh, of course don’t do that”.

[akerl_]

This doesn’t seem related to my comment. Did you mean to reply to me upthread?

Saying ~“maybe it’s not ok to do <thing> but <reasons they might do thing>” is nothing like your example and does imply it’s acceptable to the speaker to sometimes do that thing.

But we’re past that now because the person I was discussing this with has gone ahead and clarified that telling an open source maintainer to please stop fucking up isn’t an angry comment.