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by ergot_vacation 1898 days ago
I'm not trying to be snobbish here, but what on earth is up with the formatting of this post? Plenty of people post here that aren't native English speakers, nothing wrong with that, but the grammar and spelling mistakes aren't consistent with someone who's simply not fluent. They look a lot more like someone who's deliberately trying to appear "unsophisticated" to blend in (a poor strategy on HN, but a pretty effective one on most social media). OP can't even decide whether a comma should have:

1. A space on the right 2. A space on the left AND right 3. No space at all.

They do seem to have decided that commas, are really great ,and should be, used as much as possible even , if they make no sense at all.

Combine this with the fact that OP's account is 4 hours old (created to post this thread) and the suspect flavor of the post (a self post, devoid of links, high in vague political controversy and low in any thoughtful or interesting content (the core of any good HN post)) and I call shenanigans. This is an inorganic attempt at shit-stirring.