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> Stopped reading after that.

Uh, and you were doing so well. That meme should crawl in to a corner and die.

I stopped reading after that. (It was the last thing you wrote :) )

I have no idea what you are referencing.

It's a common thing now for a comment on some text to identify done objectionable line and say "stopped reading after you said react was a framework not a library" or whatever. It's a really condescending way to indicate disagreement with a part of an article, and dismiss the author.

If you stopped reading you don’t really have the right to comment, not any more than someone who didn’t read at all.

“Stopped reading” usually means you fixed an interpretation of what the author said and presumed the rest without giving them the courtesy of actually verifying what they wrote is what you think it is. That’s rude and a cognitive bias that weakens quality discourse.

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