Comment by dietr1ch
2 days ago
> If someone absolutely insists on being an asshole, escalate.
That's doubling down on time spent on contributing back. It's usually cheaper to workaround the issue once you notice it'll be way harder than it should be (not hard at all).
I would think the person is more interesting and more relevant than the button. One doesn't create hurdles when I'm trying to work. You just don't do it.
I've allowed people to build a whole obstacle course one time. Decades later it stil has me randomly burst out in laughter. It's like hoarding technical debt until nothing in the code base makes sense or even looks familiar. You just don't do that...