Passive aggressive thread prompts

[Sim]

Just an observation ... "What's gone wrong this time?" as a thread prompt in bug reports comes across as a bit passive aggressive - I automatically read this in an exasperated (or even whiny) voice. Maybe it's because I've got young kids. Maybe it's just the voices in my head I need to deal with



Not really a problem - just something I thought I would point out.

 

[Neal]

It's a bug report forum prompt so if anything XenForo are blaming themselves in a light-hearted kind of way (that's the way i'm reading it).

It might be time for you to have a nice cup of tea

 

[Dixie McCall]

I would have to agree. It read a bit *****y.

 

[Mike]

It clearly wasn't meant that way, but I can certainly see how it (and one of the other bug prompts) could be offputting, so I've dropped a couple of them.

 

[Sim]

I love that last one

How about ... "Oh dear, what did [insert staff member name here] break now?"

or "It wasn't me, I have the git-blame logs to prove it!"

perhaps "Entomologist inbox - pin your bugs here"

maybe "Shoot a nuke down a bug hole, you got a lot of dead bugs"