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I'd like to issue a blanket ban on the "considered harmful" thing, as well as sharing print-optimized PDFs on the web for people on computers to read.

Both things are archaisms that can be easily avoided, and in the particular case of this article, the 2nd part of the title works just as well as the title.

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I am not generally in favor of bans, but if it came to that, I would first like to see a ban on complaints about the style and format of interesting material made freely available by the people who have already put considerable effort into creating it.

Style and format are important tho, would you like your docs written in haiku, or as a single three hour light opera video?

Embracing an archaic grandstanding pose and an academic look when much more easily grokkable formats are available just doesn't help get your message across that well. And when there's one of this roughly monthly I'd personally love to at least see less of them.

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