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>Of course you should be respectful in a code review

It seems self evident but there are a lot of people who don't believe this and take a kind of perverse pride in "tearing others' code to shreds" so it's worth enshrining in policy if nothing else.

Working in various companies I have seen code reviews become filled with micro-aggressions and outright nastiness. Code reviews have a purpose but that often gets clouded in personal judgements. This ends up making things like refactoring difficult, as people just don’t want to bother with the process.

I agree. Really poorly done - I'm surprised this is on the front page of HN.

Perhaps, but I'm finding that the resulting discussion surfaces a lot of wisdom, good ideas, and different perspectives.

I agree the examples are bad. An article like this would be really helpful with more and better examples.

What do you think are bad about the examples? They all seem reasonable to me.