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Hold Your Standards

November 16, 2018

Code and design reviews are events where your standards and guidelines actually get enforced. Apply your standards clearly during review, then hold the line. An author should have to justify why you should bend the rules for their submission.

Conceding too early to an exemption (out of simple expediency, or worse, pity for the author) erodes your product’s quality. Every premature concession is an admission that you don’t really believe that your standards are necessary to build your product.