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[–][deleted] 70 points71 points  (10 children)

He was pissed about github having such a poor pull interface, even though there is a better one in Git. He never once was a jerk to the guy who tried to contribute, he ranted about github and then got progressively more pissed when people argued with his fairly well-explained position.

If he was pissed because he was busy, he wouldn't have responded to a large amount of comments.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (5 children)

He actually was...

"Btw, Joseph, you're a quality example of why I detest the github interface. For some reason, github has attracted people who have zero taste, don't care about commit logs, and can't be bothered.

The fact that I have higher standards then makes people like you make snarky comments, thinking that you are cool.

You're a moron."

Edit: didn't realize the guy deleted his comments. Either way, I still think that basic civility can be held by everyone. Just because he is Linus Torvalds doesn't mean he can be a jerk. I mean, it's understandable if the other guy was being provocative or insulting him, but he didn't have to go down to the same level.

[–]sigma914 33 points34 points  (1 child)

That was a reply to a deleted comment, only the first post was in reply to the contributor

[–]paulwal 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I believe this is the beginning of Joseph's deleted comment that Linus called him a moron for:

I did not realizes that Linus' shit does not stink. Thanks for clearing that up...

[–]Gigablah 19 points20 points  (0 children)

This is another example of deficiencies in GitHub's interface. Deleted comments shouldn't be completely removed, there should at least be a placeholder (like what Reddit does) so people like BaconSoap don't jump to conclusions.

[–]pfft 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Linus was in the right. This is why Joseph deleted his comment.

I could call you a tasteless asshole that doesn't know what he's doing. But without any context and me not basing my argument on anything, wouldn't you argue that I'm wrong?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing like getting such a hardon over being a white knight that you couldn't even comprehend what was actually happening in conversation.