Comment by viccis
4 days ago
To whom am I showing contempt? Please explain.
(Remember: When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.)
4 days ago
To whom am I showing contempt? Please explain.
(Remember: When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.)
The entire comment was a quotation of something written by someone else, which made me wonder whether you felt that the person you were replying to did not deserve the effort it would have taken to express yourself in your own words.
Being something written for another context with no words added by you to explain how it fits into the current context puts more work on the reader, which implies that the reader needs to put in work to continue to hold up their end of the conversation (whereas you don't need to put in much work or at least don't need to indicate to us that you are putting in work) which in turn tends to put you in the position of a teacher assigning us something to read as homework.
Its being longer than the average HN comment tend to carry the same implication.
Although the comment only weakly implies contempt, your previous comment also implied contempt. If you want me to, I can explain that one, too.
I concede that it is impossible for me to tell whether you actually felt any contempt while writing your 2 comments, but many readers react negatively to even weak signs that contempt might be present.
More importantly, if people see you get away with comments like those 2, that acts as a sort of informal invitation for them to do likewise.
>The entire comment was a quotation of something written by someone else
Kinda the whole point of a koan. Doing my own would be cringe.
>did not deserve the effort it would have taken to express yourself in your own words
Not gonna argue with a mod myself. Nope.
>Although the comment only weakly implies contempt, your previous comment also implied contempt. If you want me to, I can explain that one, too.
Nah I definitely implied contempt to the guy who thought avocado oil is an unhealthy thing invented in the past 50 years.
>More importantly, if people see you get away with comments like those 2, that acts as a sort of informal invitation for them to do likewise.
Part of the point of my koan was to talk about what kind of things people might be invited to post here.