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Holy moly your bar for "complaining" is low. It'd be like if I were hiking in the woods, overheard someone talking about crossing a bridge, and said "careful, that bridge isn't very sturdy!" and you respond "How about contacting your local ranger station, submitting a form BQ-447r with your real name and contact info, including a structural analysis of exactly where you see the issue, and sitting through multiple council meetings about the issue, instead of complaining!?"

GP's not really complaining, they're just warning people. And the reality is that submitting an issue can take a lot of time. I don't even bother submitting bug reports to Microsoft anymore because their burden for reproducibility is so high that they're basically asking me to reverse-engineer their software to find their bug for them.



what is GP?


GP is not the parent (P) reply, but the grandparent reply, i.e. the one written by "omgtehlion".

When you write a reply, P would be the one you're replying to. GP is the reply the person you reply to was replying to




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