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Are you bothered if someone starts a post with "I completely agree with you."? If so, I think that's strange. Why would that bother you? They're giving you a
by stevelosh 15y ago
Are you bothered if someone starts a post with "I completely agree with you."?
If so, I think that's strange. Why would that bother you? They're giving you an idea of what their comment will be like up front to help you understand it more easily.
If not, they why does it bother you when they say essentially the same thing with four fewer words?
It's totally fine to be annoyed by a comment that doesn't add anything or is immature, but that's what you should be annoyed by, not the fact that they happened to use a particular phrase that concisely states a summary of their opinion.
- juiceandjuice 15y ago"Whatever the cause, stupid comments tend to be short." - pg [1] I feel like, whatever the cause, comments that tend to start with "This." tend to be follow this pattern as well. It's not always the case, which is why I'd urge people to not use "This." when starting a sentence. I also feel like "This." hangs there to evoke a vote of karma, irrespective of comment content much more than "I completely agree with you" would, especially with people who frequent reddit. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
- philwelch 15y ago> Are you bothered if someone starts a post with "I completely agree with you."? If it clarifies that they aren't arguing with the parent post, it's valuable, but even then you could say, "To expand on your point about..." or something similar. Otherwise, there's no way that someone else's agreement with a comment provides any useful information to me.