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Cedar makes my point for me, just because legal documents might often feature longwinded text doesn't mean you can't be concise otherwisecedarbridge wrote:I'm in the same profession. Completeness is not the opposite of being concise.oranges wrote:He's a lawyer they can't help it they have to be explicit in legal contracts, every lawyer I've met types like that, I honestly suspect fwoosh or oxford are too.Qbopper wrote:unrelated: dude look I know you get harassed for this all the time but did you not have an English teacher that taught you how to be concise? So many of your points can be distilled to much shorter paragraphs and sentences, it's resulting in people not reading your posts and dismissing you because lol essays ecks dee
Back on topic: anyone who thinks getting stuff merged isn't a social game is going to eat shit all day long, you do have to suck up to the maintainers, you do have to listen to what they say and do it, you do have to get them to back you up, if a maintainer doesn't like you they can make your day very hard and if you tick them off enough will be very very very hard to undo the mess you end up in, especially if you alienate all of them.
This is mostly off topic though and I doubt robustin is willing to listen to any feedback on it because of the meme status it's reached where everyone posts about ecks dee essays, so we should probably not have this conversation here