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This is true if you're writing a letter about a difficult topic. For HN comments, 99.9% of the time, a short comment is a low effort one and should be disregar
by keiferski 4mo ago
This is true if you're writing a letter about a difficult topic.
For HN comments, 99.9% of the time, a short comment is a low effort one and should be disregarded.
- mlhpdx 4mo agoon the other hand, when I see a long post here I assume it’s yet another ego-driven tirade and skip past it.
- hliyan 4mo ago> yet another ego-driven tirade I tried to recall the last time I saw what I felt was an ego-driven tirade on HN comments, and I'm currently drawing a blank. There's a lot of what's called "performative erudition", and there is the occasional lengthy diatribe, but I would call neither one of those ego-driven tirades.
- warkdarrior 4mo ago"performative" = "ego-driven"
- dijksterhuis 4mo agolong, low: copypasta; rant; sales; slop. (brevity, purposeful /s).
- hackable_sand 4mo agoA comment should fill exactly the amount of space that it fills, no?