mara's review, addressed with evidence not assertions:
- Microsoft.Contractions: re-enabled per her flat disagreement, no
argument.
- Microsoft.Passive vs write-good.Passive: she asked what the
difference actually is. Ran both individually against the full
docs/ tree and diffed the exact file:line:col sets -- 726/726
identical, zero difference either direction. Genuinely redundant,
not assumed. write-good.Passive stays enabled (agreed base style),
Microsoft.Passive drops as the literal duplicate.
- write-good.Passive: she disputed my invented examples (correctly --
a clean single-actor rewrite does read better active). Pulled 10
real hits from the actual docs tree instead of inventing more
sentences; most have a generic/implicit actor where passive reads
naturally, not a clear active-voice win. Re-enabled per the
redundancy point above rather than disabled as "mostly noise".
- Microsoft.Dashes: same outcome (stays disabled, retrofitting ~2000
existing occurrences is out of scope here) but the reasoning was
wrong -- not a "deliberate convention", an incidental one nobody
chose. Rewritten.
- Microsoft.Adverbs, alex.ProfanityUnlikely, write-good.E-Prime,
Microsoft.HeadingAcronyms: moved to an explicit "wave 2 candidates"
section -- disabled for this rollout, not dismissed. Each needs a
real false-positive-rate pass or an actual rewrite pass through the
flagged instances before a permanent call.
- Dropped the .vale.ini header's pointer to "the PR description" for
rationale -- not durable/visible enough as a reference from a file
that lives in the repo. Rationale is now fully inline per rule.
1069 more hits than the previous round (726 write-good.Passive + 343
Contractions, Microsoft.Passive's 726 removed) -- 1732 total across 50
files.
