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by kragen
733 days ago
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it's a little bit like wearing a mohawk or a short skirt. a certain kind of people reveal what kind of people they are by harassing the mohawk-wearer and blaming the target for it. nobody is going to read this thread and be dumb enough to say, 'oh, yes, clearly, the person who was derailing discussion about the patent status of h.264 and the future of video codecs, in order to advocate the far more important topic of proper capitalization, was someone other than animalmuppet' (i recommend you knock it off) but yeah, the main benefit is that it gets people to read about the long now foundation |
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2. The person who derailed the conversation was 293984j29384.
3. It's AnimalMuppet, not animalmuppet.
4. Why do I care? I think about that scene in Chariots Of Fire where the track coach is talking to a sprinter, and explaining that is starting steps are too far apart. As he explains what it's like, he says "It knocks you back" and slaps him lightly in the face. The runner rocks back slightly. "Knocks you back" and slaps him lightly. He does this four times. Then he says, "You see?"
That's what you're doing to your readers with your dates and your lack of proper capitalization. Sure, they can read it. But it costs them a small amount of unnecessary effort to parse it. Does it matter? As the track coach said, "I can get you another two yards." Two yards isn't much, in a 100 yard race, but it's enough to matter. (And posts are read more often than they are written. It's a small matter for each reader, but if 10 people read it, or 100, it adds up.)
Look, if you want to do that in a blog, that's fine. You do you. I won't care. But I care about HN, and I care about you making it a worse experience for people. I wish you would stop doing so.