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Ask HN: Why does an “open letter” have more legitimacy than a “blog post”?
People seem to give more weight, value, trust to a piece of writing titled as an "open letter", than they do to just a plain old piece of writing.
Why is that?
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- marcell 9y agoOften an open letter will be written by a famous person, though that's not always the case. That association gives it an air of exclusivity, like you're seeing a secret correspondence of elites.