OMG I hate this reasoning so much. If you're brilliant enough that you think you can teach this piece of "netiquette" to non techies, then you are almost certa

OMG I hate this reasoning so much. If you're brilliant enough that you think you can teach this piece of "netiquette" to non techies, then you are almost certainly smart enough to write a script to obsolete the need for the netiquette in this instance. Make a damn bot that waits random(1, 3) seconds before responding, "Hi, what's up?" This is one of the few social problems that is trivially solved by technology. To not solve it, and to then pretend we must do work to teach the world how to type chats to each other is to be the opposite of a hacker. Seriously, where is the newbie_responder.pl module that passes the Turing test for introductory social pleasantries? Shame on you, Perl community. In my imagined alternate reality, some Perlite got tired of multiple bot responses to the newbie and didn't want to do the boring work of electing a leader bot. And in their hacking fervor they accidentally created a novel solution to the Byzantine Generals problem. Back in reality we get million dollar NFT monkey jpegs and a brilliant scheme to optimize out the word "Hello." Hacker news? More like "hawker" news. Hello! ./laughtrack.pl