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> most comments about his post concern his quirks of using bolding in overabundance

This is a widespread problem with Indians and generally foreigners on the Internet.

People: learn to write like a real person, or shut up. Please, just shut up until you've read enough that your comments resemble those from a native speaker. It worked for me.

We're not Japanese. The Latin alphabet is not for decoration.

Capitalize proper names. DON'T SCREAM. One question/exclamation mark is plenty. Use emphasis sparingly.

In general, when in doubt, don't.

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This comment violates the guidelines by being uncivil. Hacker News is not the type of community where it's OK to demand that other members shut up, or to write like a "real person". If you're asking for care and consideration, you must offer the same yourself.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13146693 and marked it off-topic.

I agree with your opinion on effective writing style. I know I have a bias against shorthand, all-caps, excessive profanity, bad spelling, and I try to work against it if I'm interested in reading what they have to say. And people aren't going to be able to improve their writing to without practice, and effective practice is writing about things you care about.

This is a widespread problem with Indians and generally foreigners on the Internet.

That said, the generalizations of Indians and foreigners are cringeworthy at best and wholly unnecessary in making your point.

For what it's worth, I'm aware that the reason I'm generalising Indians is because there's more of them, so there will be more that can't write properly, and they will be more visible.

See StackOverflow as a prominent example.

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a great counterpoint is documentation for MXNet which is clearly written by non native speakers yet is widely adopted since its so awesome

I simply consider it polite to make an effort to speak English properly.

People have better things to do with their time than read over "quirks" in my writing.

In case it's not obvious, I'm a foreigner, too.

Please don't speak like that here.

its obviously a satirical comment since the parent comment was engaging in xenophobia.

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