Re^11: To help not to misguide

“Having” to be polite has never deterred me from posting corrections. Nor from going to the trouble of making them polite.

And drop the hyperbole about verbosity. Explaining why a piece of posted code is wrong does not make the node any harder to understand than a curt, snide “wrong!” for those readers who already know, but helps those who don’t.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^12: To help not to misguide by phaylon (Curate) on Jan 03, 2006 at 15:48 UTC
I'm not a native speaker and really have to think what and how I write. And I find a 'XY is wrong.' much easier to understand than a substitution that's intended to not hurt somebody's feelings. 'You are wrong' is a simple and clear expression, that of course should be followed by an explanation of What and Why. If a questioner has problems with being told that (s)he is wrong, I don't see that as a problem of the answerer. Ordinary morality is for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley	[reply]
Re^13: To help not to misguide by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 03, 2006 at 15:55 UTC
So do you find my correction on Re: Regular Expression tricky newline problem hard to understand? Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^14: To help not to misguide by phaylon (Curate) on Jan 03, 2006 at 15:58 UTC
No, I'm pretty good at reading english. But sometimes have problems to formulate what I want to write, so that people understand what I mean. I'll therefore take the freedom to make direct statements like "You are wrong" if I think a person "is wrong." :) Ordinary morality is for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley	[reply]