Tweaking, a touchy subject?

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Is 'You must have tweaked that for ages' a compliment or an insult?

Compliment
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Insult
0
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Neither (it's just a comment)
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It can be either or both, depending on the situatio
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Total votes : 25

Tweaking, a touchy subject?

Postby dudiobugtron » Mon Aug 14, 2006 1:51 am

A lot of people say 'Wow you must have tweaked that for ages' referring to peoples' winning solutions.

This can be taken as:
a compliment (Wow, you have a lot of skill and patience, much more than me!)
or, an insult (You only beat me because you spent longer, etc...)

How do you view it?
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Postby .ch » Mon Aug 14, 2006 2:20 am

To me, it's just a plain old comment.
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Postby PeterT » Mon Aug 14, 2006 2:47 am

I always used it as a compliment, so I hope that the people I addressed it to felt the same :armadillo:
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Postby dudiobugtron » Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:00 am

PeterT wrote:I always used it as a compliment, so I hope that the people I addressed it to felt the same :armadillo:

That's how I felt, but I realised after using it that I should probably check just incase I was belittling someone's victory!
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Postby Lazerus » Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:18 am

I think the clue here is the word wow. A term of impressed astonishment.
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Postby ?rjan Flatseth » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:09 pm

Interesting question.
I guess it dependson what the sender means, but also what the receiver think about it.
I for one are never quite sure what people mean with it. That is partly because I for my self think tweaking is not allways just tweaking. A monkey kan tweak blindley an find a genious solution, ok ok. But when a adult human spend some hours on tweaking it sure helps to be able to preview that it shal be possible in theory at first. The grater understaning of the theory the more time the tweaker will spend on that tweak and not just jump to next tweakable spot as it does not succeed at once... bla bla.. 8)
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