Are you saying you reject the use of "we" for any group that doesn't include you?

freehorse 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I assume it is essentially more about if it includes the author of the article. In the specific case, the author is a journalist not a scientist part of the actual group that did the work, so their "we" seems to forcingly include everybody in the planet, thus also OP here. I dont think OP would have an issue if one of the scientists in this case used "we".

	▲	stavros 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Ah good shout, I was assuming the author of the article was also on the team of the discovery, but it's Gizmodo, so I shouldn't have thought that.

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Razengan an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It's specially annoying when people use it to latch on to achievements they had no part in. Like Americans today going "We stopped Hitler" etc.

	▲	temp0826 37 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I use it to give credit to peers if I've done something good (and maybe to take/share some blame if I wasn't directly responsible). The one that makes me cringe is people saying us/we when referring to their preferred sportsball team though
	▲	stavros 23 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Ah, in that sense yeah, I also feel similarly. I thought that the article was written by someone on the discovering team, hence my confusion.