On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:19:44 -0400 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 15:05 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 
> > "Nice", "subtle", and "polite" all seem mostly orthogonal to me.
> > 
> 
> "Nice" and "polite" are rather attached.

Being "polite" without being "nice" is quite possible.  It even has a name:
 Diplomacy.

NeilBrown