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It's unusual to see the word "silently" used as a selling point these days. In headlines, it's almost always used in the context of some bad behavior and as suc
by re 5y ago
It's unusual to see the word "silently" used as a selling point these days. In headlines, it's almost always used in the context of some bad behavior and as such has taken on negative connotations for me. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=silently https://hn.algolia.com/?q=silently
I plugged the title of this post into a few online sentiment analysis tools and they both rated it as having negative sentiment. If the author sees this, you might want to swap it out for another word like "automatically" in the readme.
- bobbyi 5y ago"Transparently" is a conceptually similar word that had positive connotations
- e_proxus 5y agoOr in this case ”automatically”.
- hoppyhoppy2 5y ago>If the author sees this, you might want to swap it out for another word like "automatically" in the readme. On the other hand, giving up on using "silently" in a positive light does nothing to push back against its negative connotation and cedes the word to the negative Nancys. The author doesn't appear to be trying to make a living from this and I appreciate their using language they want to use whether or not it's approved by the marketing department.
- rknightuk 5y agoI wasn't happy with the use of "silently" but I kept forgetting to remove it. It's now been updated. Thanks for the feedback.