Comment by laszlojamf
3 months ago
gotta love HN. Top comment on an AMA with an author who's actually written books is "Here is a book you should read".
3 months ago
gotta love HN. Top comment on an AMA with an author who's actually written books is "Here is a book you should read".
I don't understand what's wrong with someone suggesting a book to an author? Do you think all authors have read all other books?
If you had pointed out the original commenter's patronizing comment, as if they with 100% certainty know better than the author who has just written a book about said topic (at least the commenter thinks so), then I'd have agreed with you.
Gotta love HN. A commenter does literally nothing other than recommend a book and the top reply is "don't recommend books to him - he's written books, don't you know that?"
TBF I think it's just a remark on the upvotes. It's a perfectly cromulent comment with no business being at the top of an AMA.
I upvoted it - because I loved those two suggestions and have already have them open in another tab. I believe a bunch of others would have done the same.
Gotta love HN. You can't just have a thread without a psycho-analysis on how people interact with each other on a social media website.
Right, and it's quite possibly not even very relevant to the book.
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Very very patronizing of him to get upvoted.
> Here's where I thank AIs for the small mercies of slopping on pleasantries on otherwise tone deaf emails and messages.
God I hate that, please send me more to-the-point tone deaf emails and messages.