I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me

Crocker's Rules is a concept where you give others explicit permission to skip social cushioning and communicate with maximum directness. Excessive hedging, preemptive apologies, and burying key information in pleasantries wastes time, trains colleagues to skim your messages, and undermines your technical credibility. Direct communication — stating facts plainly without emotional preamble — is more respectful and more useful. Incident reports should state what broke and why, not the author's emotional state. PR comments and Slack messages should lead with the actual point. The post argues that over-polite, noise-heavy communication is a form of anxiety disguised as consideration, and that clarity should always come first.