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by permanent 480 days ago
Engagement-optimized writing style (whether intentionally or subconsciously learnt to do so)
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Maybe, but I disengaged partway through (right after “I’m not going to bury the lede” and seeing there was a bunch more engagement filler immediately after, burying the lede). I will not read prose written like this.
then you missed the gold at the bottom....
If the article was compellingly written I guess I would have gotten to it. But the author is a bad writer and uses tricks reminiscent of “read this list, item #9 will shock you!”

No thanks.

I opened another article someone posted by the same author and now that I know they write like this, u couldn’t make it through the first paragraph. Absolute trash.

(You appear to be replying directly to the author, BTW.)
The gold-encrusted pile of poo? Not missing much...