> Must be followers of Chicago Manual of Style (and not AP Stylebook.)
You know, there are more than two possible choices. I scorn to subject myself to any style guide for my personal writing… let alone an American one. People used em-dash-sans-space long before CMOS was dreamed up.
I sha’n’t follow all the older traditions I find, but I do frequently favour them.
Or we follow Occam's razor and accept that a random guy whose comment looks like AI in a tech forum discussing AI is not an advanced scribe following a certain school of writing, but rather some vibe coder who AI-optimizes their comments.
This is HN. We’re not typical people. Quite a few of us have been consistently and deliberately using em dashes for a long, long time.
Please face it: especially on a site like HN, you will encounter em dashes from real humans, whether converted by some system software or typed deliberately.
Em dashes are a weak signal at best. On HN, they’re a very weak signal.
You didn't spell any words wrong!!! That's so obviously AI slop you're posting. What a hypocrite! At least activate a skill that randmly misspells words to mask that you're using AI to complain about other people using AI.
You know, there are more than two possible choices. I scorn to subject myself to any style guide for my personal writing… let alone an American one. People used em-dash-sans-space long before CMOS was dreamed up.
I sha’n’t follow all the older traditions I find, but I do frequently favour them.