| ▲ | dang 2 hours ago | |
I appreciate the kind reply! A comment like the GP quickly pattern-matches as snark and dismissal because those are so common on the internet. In other words, if you don't intend your comment that way, you need to do something to disambiguate this. Your follow-up comment does this nicely. The reason this happens is that we all tend to take our intent for granted and forget that it exists in our head and isn't accessible to others unless we make it explicit. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... This also leads to a fascinating (to me at least!) phenomenon where the reply to a moderation comment (i.e. your follow-up here) makes explicit the thought which the commenter meant to communicate. What's fascinating is how different this is from what they originally posted. I call this the rebound effect. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... | ||
| ▲ | sixtyj an hour ago | parent [-] | |
Cheers. You are absolutely right. After 30 years on the internet I should have known it. Nobody knows you are a dog. And… don’t make jokes as everybody reads them in different ways… | ||