Armadillo Run forum

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?

To me, it's just a plain old comment.

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

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

That's how I felt, but I realised after using it that I should probably check just incase I was belittling someone's victory!

I think the clue here is the word wow. A term of impressed astonishment.

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..