i will take someone who fucks up regularly but actively tries to make it better and works on it over someone who only makes a mistake once but will fight tooth and claw to deny both it and any responsibility.
any. fucking. time.
@witchling the vast, vast majority of errors are caught early enough to be fixed

even most of the ones that appear to be exceptions turn out to be someone silencing early criticism in the course of doubling down on the error
@apophis uhm what exactly do you mean?
@witchling seeing the rest of the thread i'm probably thinking of a different, more initially unintentional kind of wrongdoing than the one this thread is about...