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I get this, and I've started to write this way, because it gets a better response; but it feels to me like it's designed to maximize an emotional response and n
by mikkergp 4y ago
I get this, and I've started to write this way, because it gets a better response; but it feels to me like it's designed to maximize an emotional response and not a cognitive response, and find I have less trust in people who write this way (Which is most things, i get)
I do wonder how this style of writing has impacted the psychology of argument, I imagine there are others who read this style of writing and assume it is written in stone or as an objective statement, and not a subjective one. This may just be human nature.
- arcticfox 4y agoI have to say I appreciated but also laughed at the sheer number of the qualifiers you're discussing in your post... "it feels to me", "I find I", "I do wonder", "I imagine", "this may" I find it makes for less combative discussions. So I like it.
- klodolph 4y agoI'd say that these qualifiers are much more useful in informal communication, like HN, and inappropriate for long-form stuff like essays. Essays are longer, more coherent, and denser.
- mikkergp 4y agoI think it’s more distasteful in the modern clickbait blog world then more intellectual and well thought out books/essays/etc, where your perspective is not designed for a purely emotional response.
- mikkergp 4y ago“Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like uh, your opinion, man.”