The problem with the comment was that it wasn’t clear what it was a disagreement with—the facts referred to, particular facts referred to, or the implicitly proposed community behavior (as I took it).
In that way, this is one of the worst kinds of comment—ambiguous disagreement. They haven’t made any effort to be clear. You don’t know what they’ve said, so it invites requests for clarification. It otherwise invites counter disagreement, based on an assumption of what was disagreed with. On the bright side, no one followed up.
But if he was just disagreeing with a proposed policy, and made that clear, it would have been an appropriate comment in my estimation.
And “I disagree” on a substantive fact is not really a negative affirmation in the sense I meant. It is a not very informative sharing of a personal attitude. In general, I find “I agree” noise to be filtered. But I wouldn’t call that comment unpleasant at all. It lacked all emotional tone for me.
Negative affirmations (for example) are also noise. But more unpleasant noise.
The problem with the comment was that it wasn’t clear what it was a disagreement with—the facts referred to, particular facts referred to, or the implicitly proposed community behavior (as I took it).
In that way, this is one of the worst kinds of comment—ambiguous disagreement. They haven’t made any effort to be clear. You don’t know what they’ve said, so it invites requests for clarification. It otherwise invites counter disagreement, based on an assumption of what was disagreed with. On the bright side, no one followed up.
But if he was just disagreeing with a proposed policy, and made that clear, it would have been an appropriate comment in my estimation.
And “I disagree” on a substantive fact is not really a negative affirmation in the sense I meant. It is a not very informative sharing of a personal attitude. In general, I find “I agree” noise to be filtered. But I wouldn’t call that comment unpleasant at all. It lacked all emotional tone for me.