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> ISHYGDDT

For readers like me, this means "I seriously hope you guys don't do this."

Thanks for the information, I find that these acronyms may increase the bandwidth of communication, but the worse quality of the prose and dependence of context that is not always obvious makes this pattern very annoying.

I've read this one specifically many times without knowing what it means, whereas the author may think that an interested reader would look up it's meaning, in my case I rejected what I read and moved on.

ISHYGDDT is 4chan slang. It's deliberately obtuse. You're not supposed to look it up, you're supposed to LURK MORE until you figure it out from context.

Even if you do know what it stands for, that's still only half of the true meaning.

EDIT: By which I mean this sort of language is not a good fit for an audience that doesn't follow 4chan memes.

Yeah, let's please keep this childish nonsense off of HN.

    > Even if you do know what it stands for, that's 
    > still only half of the true meaning.

I cringed.

    >I cringed.

Thank you for your valuable contribution.

Working as intended.

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