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14 points by g4zj on May 21, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



I like the concept, but this almost reaches into the realm of pedantic. I don’t think you really need more than “nitpick:” if you want to soften up your comment a bit. (At least don’t systematize into a list of tokens you have to police to keep things consistant)


They criticise the comment: "This is not worded correctly.", by saying that "Comments like this are unhelpful… ", which is true.

However, I don't think that even their example of an "actionable" comment ("suggestion: This is not worded correctly. Can we change this to match the wording of the marketing page?") is actually a "good" comment, because whilst it is slightly more specific it still doesn't say what the wording on the marketing page actually is.

It would be better to write: "Can we change 'X' to 'Y' to match the wording of the marketing page?".


I like the concept and employ some of it for personal use. A vscode extension[0] helped me getting started and now its used in nearly all of my projects.

[0]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vivaxy.v...


thought: no




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