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Manners. It's just rude if I'm not somewhat close to the person.

• skyyler 2y ago
  I see. It's impolite to be direct? But it's polite to be flowery and avoid what you're actually trying to say? I don't always _feel_ autistic, but stuff like this reminds me that I'm not normal.
  • wat10000 2y ago
    I hear you. I get it enough to know it’s needed, but actually doing it can be hard. LLMs can be nice for that. Being too flowery and indirect is annoying but not impolite. If you overdo it then people may still get annoyed with you, but for different reasons. For most situations you don’t need too much, a salutation and a “I hope you’re doing well” and a brief mention of who you are and what you’re writing about can suffice.
    • taormina 2y ago
      There’s an argument that being intentionally annoying is impolite.