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[โ€“] FizzyOrange 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Saying "good attempt" is just a nice platitude. It doesn't actually mean that what you've done is good, especially if you follow it up with (effectively) "but you've got to do it all again". I think most people understand that.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

It's not guaranteed that it's interpreted as a platitude by the person it's directed at, and when the mismatch between the task and the work done is big enough to make it obviously a platitude, it's just patronising, and risks being more insulting than not saying it at all.