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You can be factual and still sound pretentious and cringey. Like the medical doctors who insist on being called “doctor”, to the point of smuggly “correcting” strangers in a social setting.

I don’t know this user and won’t assume his intentions, but I can see how having “I’m a GitHub star [star emoji]” as the first sentence on the profile is doing him a disservice: it makes it seem like it’s the most impressive thing he’s achieved and diminishes everything else.

>>latexr+(OP)
FWIW a smug doctor usually corrects people that they are a Physician.

>>newmac+H
Maybe in English, but in my native tongue there’s no word for physician.

Also, I meant in the sense that you call someone “mister McSmug” and they reply almost angrily with “doctor McSmug”.

>>latexr+(OP)
fixed. i wrote that when i was still trying to be approachable and cutesy. now i dont need it lol.

>>swyx+EJ
I love the edit in GH. So much.

Thank you for the work you do and for how much you have contributed to people learning over the years. <3

>>swyx+EJ
To reiterate, I don’t know you and don’t assume your intentions—and thus do not judge them. I’m also not familiar with your work but I have no doubt it’s more relevant than whatever “star award”.

In other words: it makes zero difference to me what you write in your bio though I can see how its previous wording took away from what’s important. I was conveying to the parent comment my understanding of the comment they were replying to.

Apologies for making you feel judged, that was not the point. Quite the contrary: I wanted to underline that by not knowing your intentions it does not make sense to criticise how you choose to present yourself.

>>latexr+FX1
yup no hard feelings. felt defensive heheh. i guess as my career has gone on i've accumulated other stuff but early on the github star thing really did feel like a big deal + if i wasnt gonna plug it on my github readme where else