The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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When I leave the nitpicky comments about doing things in a way that feels more correct to me, it's out of a felt obligation to make it look like I really read the diff. Sometimes it's even to excuse for me not understanding the broader context about why the change actually was made, so pointing out some language level change assuages the guilt of a half-assed job.
So then I don't take such comments to heart when I get them. On the system we use there's a "ignore" button for every comment raised. The commenter can reopen it, but it mostly doesn't happen, so I take it to mean they didn't care that strongly about it.
But maybe you feel a stronger sense of ownership over the stuff you write than I do. To me it's a cog in a larger system. I get paid whether the code goes in as I wrote it originally or if I make the requested changes. Ironically I suspect I'd feel much stronger about it if it was low-stakes unpaid open source project I was writing.
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