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Typography is a silent tool that UX designers and developers can sometimes take for granted. There is much noise around this topic. Pixels? Are breakpoints enou

Typography is a silent tool that UX designers and developers can sometimes take for granted. There is much noise around this topic. Pixels? Are breakpoints enough to switch sizes across devices? Do we even need breakpoints at all?

teddyh 4y ago
This account, “Eleven_Wilson”, was created in 2016, but did not post any comments until 2020, and has only posted three comments since. All three comments consist solely of text copied verbatim from the linked articles. Also, all three of the commented articles are both submitted by this user, and are all on the same site, “Eleven Labs”, similar to the user name.
- ziddoap 4y ago
  They submitted the post, and it appears as if they are giving a sort of one-line summary in the comments. At least that's what it looks like to me.
  - dang 4y ago
    Yes, people do that sometimes, perhaps with the intention of giving an intro to the article and maybe not realizing that it comes across as promotional. FWIW this submitter is definitely a legit HN user - we've been in contact via email - and this is a good article!
    - teddyh 4y ago
      I did not interpret it as promotional. The text of the comments was so non-sequitur that I believed the account to be a straight-up bot account, posting random snippets from articles. It was only when I investigated further, when I saw that the same user also submitted all the articles, that I started to doubt my initial impression.
  - teddyh 4y ago
    If we’re being very charitable, we might believe that. But this is also how I’ve seen many bot accounts behave, i.e. submitting random snippets of text from the featured article.
    - ziddoap 4y ago
      I believe being charitable is generally the best course of action. Not to mention that another user (dang himself, no less) has chimed in and said they've been in contact with them, vouching for their legitimacy. Unless you think they've now got 2 bot accounts to trick us (one of which being dang)... Or maybe I'm a bot too!
      - teddyh 4y ago
        I believe the other user, since I happen to know that the user “dang” is the moderator here on HN.

teddyh 4y ago

This account, “Eleven_Wilson”, was created in 2016, but did not post any comments until 2020, and has only posted three comments since. All three comments consist solely of text copied verbatim from the linked articles. Also, all three of the commented articles are both submitted by this user, and are all on the same site, “Eleven Labs”, similar to the user name.

ziddoap 4y ago
They submitted the post, and it appears as if they are giving a sort of one-line summary in the comments. At least that's what it looks like to me.
- dang 4y ago
  Yes, people do that sometimes, perhaps with the intention of giving an intro to the article and maybe not realizing that it comes across as promotional. FWIW this submitter is definitely a legit HN user - we've been in contact via email - and this is a good article!
  - teddyh 4y ago
    I did not interpret it as promotional. The text of the comments was so non-sequitur that I believed the account to be a straight-up bot account, posting random snippets from articles. It was only when I investigated further, when I saw that the same user also submitted all the articles, that I started to doubt my initial impression.
- teddyh 4y ago
  If we’re being very charitable, we might believe that. But this is also how I’ve seen many bot accounts behave, i.e. submitting random snippets of text from the featured article.
  - ziddoap 4y ago
    I believe being charitable is generally the best course of action. Not to mention that another user (dang himself, no less) has chimed in and said they've been in contact with them, vouching for their legitimacy. Unless you think they've now got 2 bot accounts to trick us (one of which being dang)... Or maybe I'm a bot too!
    - teddyh 4y ago
      I believe the other user, since I happen to know that the user “dang” is the moderator here on HN.