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> That's helpful, since one can generally assume that anyone with that attitude isn't communicating anything useful. "Anyone who shows noticeable personal idio
by chipotle_coyote 5y ago
> That's helpful, since one can generally assume that anyone with that attitude isn't communicating anything useful.
"Anyone who shows noticeable personal idiosyncrasies in their writing must not have anything useful to say" strikes me as a heuristic of exceedingly little value.
- radford-neal 5y agoIt's not just any idiosyncrasy. For example, someone might have the idiosyncrasy that whenever they mention some not-completely-common concept they put in a link to the wikipedia article on it, which I think might get rather annoying. However, I would believe that they thought they were being helpful to the reader, even if they weren't. So in that case, I wouldn't think, "if they don't care about communicating this, why should I bother reading it?"