I would. It was biased and goading and assumes a relatively sterile environment that presumes little or no familiarization as far as the code is concerned. jbg came in on the middle of a project and was tasked with reviewing all of the code that preceeded his entry into the project.
Now it's true there are some zealots among the community that take any disparaging comment about the coin personally. I don't understand that but... you know... whatever... People gunna do, I guess. I don't care how you respond to them. You being diplomatic is the least of my concerns on a fucking message board like BCT.
I also have little concern for peoples' emotions and am not particularly sensitive myself... irl and online but especially online where verbal context isn't present. But this is more about statements that you presented as fact but didn't have much anything to back those facts up except what you believe... but you presented those beliefs as "truth."
I do derive pleasure from trolling, but it has little to do with any of this and if it was an attempt to discredit me... I DID say it's a horrible indictment of my character, BUT it does put me in a unique position to spot possible troll tactics like trying to goad people into an online altercations in subtle fashion after appearing to be credible and diplomatic. I'm not questioning nature. I don't care about anyones' "nature" online. I do care about intent. And I do question intent when someone goes from someone seeming to have authority over a topic to someone taking caddy digs at another person. Gunner's original post was well laid out and objective. I'm simply saying that this most recent one takes multiple jabs at jbg personally and it caused me to rethink some of his original post that I commended initially. I'm not saying there is ulterior motive... but I didn't question whether there WAS ulterior motives before and now I do.
This is your view, you say I've provided no evidence but I've gone through the commits and shown examples where "big improvements" are nothing more than a few lines of code, in some cases less than that, others have reviewed and agreed with me, what more proof do you want? I've given examples rather than pure speculation.
You don't appear to get the point that jbg has been on board for 9 months, in the real world people jump on to projects much larger than this in size and have far far less time to understand the code base enough to bring value, imagine hiring some one who claims 15-20 years of experience and they can't bring value for 9+ months, where do we see value from jbg's work?
This isn't a personal attack on jbg, I don't know the guy and I don't care for XSPEC, the shilling on the forum and the talks about deadlines being missed on top of gunners findings made me go look at a coin I otherwise wouldn't of cared for.. simple as that.
You're obviously the one with bias views here, you're trying to defend it without adding much more than an attack on ones approach.
As for mentioning you're a troll to discredit you, you called yourself a troll, every one will have their own view on this and yes, I'll say it discredits you in my eyes, people with half a brain have better things to do than troll, try being helpful rather than an asshole.
Perhaps I'm mistaken but I believe you said Brycel "does not exist." Perhaps I'm recalling a different post but I thought that was you.
And yes I'm sure devs do arrive on projects much larger in size, but more likely with more developers than one. It's not like he was folded in. He was thrust in after the other devs left if my understanding is correct.
I wouldn't call my views "biased" I'm just trying to be objective when reading the posts here and the further they move away from simple fact and start to deviate towards ad-hominem attacks the less credible they become in my eyes. I'm not even defending the project or jbg. I'm just seeing red flags in these posts that lead me to question their reason. And "because I'm a white knight" sounds awesome as a primary objective in these posts I have to remind myself that this is the net and these are chat boxes. We can say anything about ourselves yeah? It doesn't really do much in the way of making a point.
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As for mentioning you're a troll to discredit you, you called yourself a troll, every one will have their own view on this and yes, I'll say it discredits you in my eyes, people with half a brain have better things to do than troll, try being helpful rather than an asshole.
I did say I derive pleasure from trolling. This is not a solitary defining characteristic of my being nor is it the only thing I derive pleasure from. I do enjoy helping people as well... but again, we can say whatever we want and take it all with a grain of salt. It seems to me that you are relying on what one may consider an "easy out" in terms of trying to make me not seem valid in questioning the intent of these posts. But I was very open about being trollish and how it was applicable to the situation and why these posts give me reserve. I feel like I'm being very neutral and non-incendiary when I point out these discrepancies that have lent ME some doubt as to pure motivations in these posts. That's all.