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[2] [2]: I just wanted to add the most unnecessary footnote formatting possible as a kindness, so yours would no longer hold the crown as worst

by fsckboy 11mo ago

ssl-3 11mo ago
That's clever, but: I've been called out previously here for having unknowingly introduced some undefined terms to readers, and which they found to be perplexing. And I took that to heart, because I don't want my words to be perplexing. I instead want them to be clear and easily understood. In my corner of the world, I haven't held a mimeographed document in my hands for ~35 years. I found it reasonable to assume that a non-zero amount of people here might find the term to be unfamiliar. So I provided definition of the term on the basis that it may be unknown to some readers, and that more information is better than inadequate information. In this instance I would have preferred to use hyperlinked text for visual brevity, but that's not a thing on HN. The normal and accepted style on HN consists instead of using footnotes. And at this point, generating footnotes is nearly entirely muscle memory for me. So a footnote (with a URL) was included. Thank you for your attention on this matter, fsckboy. I'm pleased to discover that you've found my footnote to be so unusually compelling.
- fsckboy 11mo ago
  >I've been called out previously here for having unknowingly introduced some undefined terms to readers, and which they found to be perplexing. i wasn't criticizing putting in a link; just put it in, it doesn't need layers of boiler plate [in this instance] like, if i use the word sesquipedalian https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sesquipedalian https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sesquipedalian [in this instance] the square brackets add nothing but noise
  - ssl-3 11mo ago
    I am appreciative of your criticism and have taken it under advisement. However, I have noted that you do not pay me. It therefore does not behoove me to try to emulate your particular writing style. Kindest regards.

[2] [2]: I just wanted to add the most unnecessary footnote formatting possible as a kindness, so yours would no longer hold the crown as worst

by fsckboy 11mo ago

[2] [2]: I just wanted to add the most unnecessary footnote formatting possible as a kindness, so yours would no longer hold the crown as worst

ssl-3 11mo ago

That's clever, but: I've been called out previously here for having unknowingly introduced some undefined terms to readers, and which they found to be perplexing. And I took that to heart, because I don't want my words to be perplexing. I instead want them to be clear and easily understood. In my corner of the world, I haven't held a mimeographed document in my hands for ~35 years. I found it reasonable to assume that a non-zero amount of people here might find the term to be unfamiliar. So I provided definition of the term on the basis that it may be unknown to some readers, and that more information is better than inadequate information. In this instance I would have preferred to use hyperlinked text for visual brevity, but that's not a thing on HN. The normal and accepted style on HN consists instead of using footnotes. And at this point, generating footnotes is nearly entirely muscle memory for me. So a footnote (with a URL) was included. Thank you for your attention on this matter, fsckboy. I'm pleased to discover that you've found my footnote to be so unusually compelling.

fsckboy 11mo ago
>I've been called out previously here for having unknowingly introduced some undefined terms to readers, and which they found to be perplexing. i wasn't criticizing putting in a link; just put it in, it doesn't need layers of boiler plate [in this instance] like, if i use the word sesquipedalian https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sesquipedalian https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sesquipedalian [in this instance] the square brackets add nothing but noise
- ssl-3 11mo ago
  I am appreciative of your criticism and have taken it under advisement. However, I have noted that you do not pay me. It therefore does not behoove me to try to emulate your particular writing style. Kindest regards.