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Well... the maintainer also shouldn't blow their stack

You can certainly imagine ways an authority figure could have defused a situation of a maintainer blowing their stack, but your framing kinda absolves the maintainer of any accountability for their actions.

A team member who needs a lot of defusing is doing something wrong, and needs to learn how to defuse themselves.



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