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> I'm a little confused about the issue description

Not helped by the fact that even with explicit cajoling* to give steps to reproduce, the reporter wrote:

> Steps to reproduce

>Try to login/create an user in Gitlab (on-premises/Gitlab.com) where the username ends with a MIME type format

Goddamit, those are not steps to reproduce! Has the current era of "social coding" and its terrible software development practices completely turned people's brains to mush?

(In fact, such cajoling shouldn't even be required. If you don't know you need to provide STR without someone going to the lengths of coddling you by going out of their way to create a template, you don't have any business using a bug tracker.)

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ok boomer

What, did that make you mad? Why're you mad?

The provided step-to-reproduce (not steps, since there's only one) seems to be regarded by the reporter as an automic operation (indivisble; a single step).

The other person is, I think, trying to express that it can potentially be done more than one way, so additional steps are required.

From a QA perspective, I prefer not to guess what the reporter might have intended. It's much better to have tons of detail, but I can sympathise with being the user and _thinking_ you have been totally clear and am know I've sometimes done this myself.

(( Unrelatedly, "ok boomer"? Since that seems such a non sequitur, I'll take in another unrelated direction and raise you an "ok athena" and "waddaya hear, starkuck?". ))

You have been trolled. The entire point of saying "ok boomer" here is to, as economically as possible, be dismissive while getting the other side to spend disproportionate energy defending the the thing being dismissed.

> From a QA perspective, I prefer not to guess what the reporter might have intended

There's not really any other perspective. That thing which you say you "prefer" is much more than a preference. It is the only reason why the bug tracker is configured to even ask for STR. If you have a "no solicitors" sign on your front door and a solicitor comes knocking anyway, or you have your door locked and a burglar climbs through a broken window and and takes all your stuff, you wouldn't respond by saying, "from my perspective, it's really disruptive and time-consuming to deal with solicitors who ignore the sign" or, "try to understand that from my perspective, it's really inconvenient when you take my things, because I have to work and spend money to replace them when I could have used that time and money doing something else." To do so tacitly legitimizes an illegitimate position held by the other.

Please look up "DARVO" to understand why explaining yourself like this is a bad idea.

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