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I always have to read your comments twice. The first time often gives me the (implied) sense you are being deliberatively incendiary or unclear. The second rea

by cam_l 3y ago

I always have to read your comments twice. The first time often gives me the (implied) sense you are being deliberatively incendiary or unclear. The second read gives me a terse, narrow, balanced, unbiased and reasonable statement based on the strict (yet multiple) definitions of the words used. It really is amazing.

tptacek 3y ago
I'm sorry, I don't follow. I know this is a lot of words responding to a short comment already, but I think you'd have to break this out further to make it legible to me. You're giving the comment more thought than I did writing it, for what it's worth.
- cam_l 3y ago
  Sure! and sorry, this is entirely meta and more critique than criticism, so feel free to ignore. Your comments are, I have noticed, often terse but always very exacting. It is different to most other comments I read on this site, where the meaning is usually clearer than the language. With yours I find it is often the reverse. It seems that you mean only what you say, rather than saying only approximately what you mean, I guess (to butcher the phrase). Anyway, this comment in particular was, I think, a good example and maybe worth drawing attention to.. as I often I find myself, (and others) 'reading in' a point of view not actually contained within your comment (perhaps implied, perhaps not). And I think maybe, the reason the comment is difficult to parse (conceptually) is it doesn't inscribe a morality or even ownership (which I believe the other commenter was responding to), even later where you make the point of view more explicit. And I can read literally the same words as implying a neutral, pro or anti stance, and the comment also still makes sense. It is unusual, and I often am left (on second read) with the sense maybe I really don't know your point of view at the end, but that also perhaps this doesn't always matter as once I discard the need for understanding any intended or implied meaning, I see what you definitely are saying is very clear. Anyway, yes, way overthinking it, but I do enjoy reading your takes for this precise reason, though I just have to remind myself to read them carefully.

by cam_l 3y ago

tptacek 3y ago

I'm sorry, I don't follow. I know this is a lot of words responding to a short comment already, but I think you'd have to break this out further to make it legible to me. You're giving the comment more thought than I did writing it, for what it's worth.

cam_l 3y ago
Sure! and sorry, this is entirely meta and more critique than criticism, so feel free to ignore. Your comments are, I have noticed, often terse but always very exacting. It is different to most other comments I read on this site, where the meaning is usually clearer than the language. With yours I find it is often the reverse. It seems that you mean only what you say, rather than saying only approximately what you mean, I guess (to butcher the phrase). Anyway, this comment in particular was, I think, a good example and maybe worth drawing attention to.. as I often I find myself, (and others) 'reading in' a point of view not actually contained within your comment (perhaps implied, perhaps not). And I think maybe, the reason the comment is difficult to parse (conceptually) is it doesn't inscribe a morality or even ownership (which I believe the other commenter was responding to), even later where you make the point of view more explicit. And I can read literally the same words as implying a neutral, pro or anti stance, and the comment also still makes sense. It is unusual, and I often am left (on second read) with the sense maybe I really don't know your point of view at the end, but that also perhaps this doesn't always matter as once I discard the need for understanding any intended or implied meaning, I see what you definitely are saying is very clear. Anyway, yes, way overthinking it, but I do enjoy reading your takes for this precise reason, though I just have to remind myself to read them carefully.