> It's just funny that you have to mention this is a question even if a question mark exists. It shows how much toxic people got instead of understanding others

> It's just funny that you have to mention this is a question even if a question mark exists. It shows how much toxic people got instead of understanding others. Excessively-defensive Internet writing style. You have to make everything clear in three different ways and over-explain everything so that careless, poor, or hostile readers won't/can't flame you or derail the conversation over something that isn't even actually true about your post. See also: disclaiming "in my opinion", sometimes more than once, for things that are obviously opinions, just to keep idiots from going "LOL that's just your opinion but you're stating it as fact" in all your responses. Once you notice this style, it's a can't-unsee kind of thing. Makes reading Web forums frustrating. This kind of distracting, mealy-mouthed crap is absent from any decent, say, traditional-publishing book or article, but is standard online. It's worse on HN (which, you'd think the whole "read generously" guidance would counter it pretty well—but no) than most places, but it's common all over. It's a bad way to write, generally, but there's a reason people do it in these kinds of contexts—one reliably draws lots more stupid or angry-for-dumb-reasons responses, when one does not so-write.