https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
There was absolutely no negative meaning intended. It was simply a really interesting project, and I was the first to discover the post.
As someone pointed out, in my country, it doesn't have any negative connotation at all.
If I made the original poster feel bad, I apologize.
https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/149145/is-the-...
I (and lot of people I know) use elipsis in writing all the time... usually to indicate a pause or change of direction from the previous thought. If I am in a hurry to get technical details down in text and off to some team, worrying about 100% correct proper writing style is time and luxury that I almost NEVER have.
And besides, unless you work in a law office or something, email is NOT a formal communications method. Grammar and spelling should be within acceptable limits but not a deal-breaker. Otherwise you'd be skating near the principle of judging a book by its cover which would be very un-woke.
Agreed. Though in the case of “cool…” there is precedent. For example, John Oliver says it sarcastically¹ with some regularity. Well, he can’t say the ellipsis, but it’s how I’d have written it.
Either way, I’m agreeing with you. People also think that putting a period at the end of a text message is rude², which is bonkers to me³. Soon we won’t be able to use any punctuation without it being considered dismissive⁴.
¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8q8PXoJwVk
² https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/crosswords/texting-punctu...
³ I do it all the time. People get used to it and learn it’s just how I write.
⁴ Yes, that’s a slippery slope fallacy. I’m employing it for comedic effect, not as a real complaint of “kids these days”.
Yes, this is essentially the kind of thing that I was thinking of. It's nutty.
I submit that anyone who assuming malice on the part of the sender without ANY direct evidence to support it likely has some trust issues to work out with their therapist. I started out my adult life being deeply distrustful of basically everyone and it took a LONG time to learn that (lacking direct evidence) assuming the best in people's intentions makes you a lot happier and gets you a lot farther in life.
I'm also reminded of the saying, "offense is taken, not given."
You seem confident about your interpretation...
Does that help you understand?
But also, it really didn't add anything to the discussion even if that wasn't the intention. Hence the second point I added from the guidelines. So, I see two potential areas of improvement.
> the billowing clouds of meta that tends to generate are worse (guideline-worse, no less!) than the fluffy comment itself.
Well, at the end of the day you contributed to that with your own comment.
Yes but they are explicitly accounted for in the site docs/design/intent, from waaaay back:
Empty comments can be ok if they're positive. There's nothing wrong with submitting a comment saying just "Thanks." What we especially discourage are comments that are empty and negative—comments that are mere name-calling.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
And pop up in moderation comments
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I'm pretty sure they meant saying "Thanks." in response to another comment, not as a top-level comment reply to a Show HN.
Kind of like how you wouldn't bust into a restaurant and say a loud "Thanks." to the entire room, despite it being perfectly fine to say thanks in a restaurant.