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There is some great content on substack, but it is invariably too verbose. As much as I’m glad anyone can now indulge themselves in unrestrained quill scratchin

by Gatsky 4y ago

There is some great content on substack, but it is invariably too verbose. As much as I’m glad anyone can now indulge themselves in unrestrained quill scratching, 95% of substack content needs to be edited for length. Surely there is an NLP solution for this.

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swatcoder 4y ago
> too verbose [for my tastes]. You put a very subjective opinion in very objective language. Some people prefer lingering in an essay, or meandering through musings, to reading executive summaries or condensed arguments or whatever. It's just a style. Sounds like it's not yours.
- Gatsky 4y ago
  Yes it is my opinion of course, what else could I provide? But let's be pragmatic - there is an astounding amount of content in the world. I am not asking for a dot point summary as you seem to suggest, I am asking for cogency and well-styled economy of phrase. I mean the author of this post even says "But anyway, I’m getting off track here." in the 3rd paragraph. There are other easy to fix problems like run-on sentences, spamming adverbs, clunky use of cliches as concatenated adjectives ("can’t-see-the-wood-for-the-trees pursuit")... are you saying that you enjoy meandering through this 'style' of writing as you put it?