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there isn't space for it First they came for Upton's Law... Could be squeezed in maybe: Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies, generic tangents and
by pvg 4y ago
there isn't space for it
First they came for Upton's Law...
Could be squeezed in maybe:
Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies, generic tangents and internet tropes
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- tptacek 4y agoIf at first they don't come for Upton's Law, then you're the product.
- dang 4y agoThat is, as Bill Clinton said to Christopher Buckley, goddamn funny.
- dang 4y agoHey that's a good idea. Thanks! I'll add it, along with an Oxford comma. Edit: done. But perhaps we should take out "internet" and just say "tropes"?
- scott_s 4y agoI don't think it flows as well as just "tropes." (And I'm allergic to Oxford commas, but so many of my thoughtful friends who care about language use them that I've started to think that's just my problem.)
- dang 4y agoOk, we'll keep 'internet' in there.
- pvg 4y agoI started with 'tropes' but then thought people might try to language-lawyer this (what kind of trope? not all tropes are negative! this isn't a trope! etc) so I scoured scripture for a representative variant and that sounded about right.
- dang 4y agoI like using the word 'internet' in moderation comments as a sort of mild pejorative—it nicely expresses the shared semi-embarrassment we all feel about whatever this is. I think it helps take pressure off people personally—because even if you're being scolded, you know..."internet" - how high can the bar really get. It's scolding on a curve.
- pvg 4y agoVariable Yield Scolding, as nuke people might call it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_yield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_yield