[ergothus]

> There's no way to know in advance what someone will learn from an experience.

Correct. You can, however, improve the odds. Being explicit about what you want them to learn as opposed to expecting a certain degree of interpretation cannot hurt your odds, though it can't guarantee them.

> Basing your response decision primarily around what someone might learn isn't a great way to decide how to respond.

In this context, what else was the point of the response? I was comparing to the STFU tell-off of the above post and the defense of it that they would learn from the experience.

[lowercased]

> what else was the point of the response?

some other public reaction/recognition for the OP, not for the benefit of the original sender.

emotional venting? that's sometimes its own reward.