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I stopped reading after "If you're a web hipster, and you're already using Twitter's Bootstrap like a whore, you're gonna love this.". I'm not an anything hipster, and I try never to do anything like a whore. Why do people think wordings like this make their products more attractive?

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Why do people use "I stopped reading after..."?

The only thing this accomplishes in my mind is to apparently show you have a closed mind, which is not a piece of information that really interests me. What does this add to the discussion? If you don't agree with something then ignore it, or downvote it or even better, give a constructive criticism.

"I stopped reading after..." is an expression. When someone says "It really breaks my hearth when..." they don't really mean that their cardiac muscles are being damaged. Also, calling someone out for bad language counts as constructive criticism in my book.

I did literally stop reading, because, rightly or wrongly, the README said this tool isn't for me. I thought I'd mention it, because I suspect that the author didn't really intend to say I shouldn't use it, and I thought they should be aware that they did so.

When the goal is to get people to use a product you've built, seeing what puts customers off can be very hard because of eg. confirmation bias, tunnel vision, and so on. That's why statements like "I stopped reading after..." or "Then I decided not to..." can be very valuable.

If you took that introduction so deeply personally that you stopped reading out of offense, I think you have deeper issues to deal with than the fact that you're not taking advantage of this open source library. This is very much your issue, not the author who has just built a library and then organized documentation just to offer it all for free. I believe he should include whatever sense of humor he wishes.

I really hope that open source authors continue to include their character in their projects. It makes the world a more interesting place.

You're probably not the target market then. The author just saved you some time.

I really hope every silly .io site doesn't start having half their page bouncing up and down now...

I'm a front end dev using Bootstrap on some sites and appreciate CSS animations, and I stopped reading after that sentence. Are me and parent not in the target market for a utility like this just because we find the copy distasteful? It's pointless affectation.

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