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by sna1l 2132 days ago
I think there is still a way to go here.

For example, the "really" in "really appreciate" isn't useful.

Also the last sentence in the "summarized" version reads: "If for any reason you haven't let, let me know..." I would also that that the "for any reason" is not useful, it is again implied.

You don't need "by now", it is implied.

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Why does it seem common for people to knock modifiers for degree/intensity with words.

The statements "That's nice." and "That's really, truly nice." give off very different messages.

One of them I'm not even sure if you're being short or dismissive/not interested, and I have to do mental gymnastics to figure out what the underlying tone is.

Just one or two words makes a massive (see what I did there) difference in tone + perception.

This is half the reason why it's hard working remotely. I put so much effort into being overly polite/nice with tone because you lose out on all other social cues and it's easy to mistake an ambiguous message.

Yep. It's missed some low-hanging fruit despite being very aggressive at removing other content

It's also deleted the important part of a sentence actually requesting feedback whilst retaining the largely content-free 'We're working hard to make life easier for developers and site owners' clause.

And if it was a human editing, I'd expect them to concatenate 'Thanks for joining' and 'I really appreciate you signing up' into 'Thanks for signing up' long before they started deleting links...

I think there's massive potential in the idea, but I'd hope at least the demo video could show something which is more tersely written and easier to read, rather than something which is merely shorter and less useful. That said, I might install it anyway since I can always reject edits I don't like.