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laserlighttoday at 10:41 AM3 repliesview on HN

> gets the point across

If people don't read because the text is an unreadable mess, none of the points get across.


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customguytoday at 10:56 AM

I'm a a people. I read it. If you call this an unreadable mess I really don't know what to say. Language is awesome, and it's awesome we can create infinitely long sentences with it. And like open source, if you don't like it, write the one you like :)

A long time ago on the myspace forums there was this slightly weird but also very wise and smart person who wrote without any punctuation or paragraphs, ever. Although they were generally liked and part of the community, I think I was the only person who read every single one of their comments in full, religiously, once I realized how insightful they were, and I was richer for it. I could have told them the obvious, how their posts differ from most others on the forums; and they would have posted with less joy and maybe less overall, that would have been it.

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raincoletoday at 11:12 AM

It might be a surprise to you, but there are plenty of people who are willing to read one or two paragraphs of words.

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laumtoday at 10:51 AM

tbh I quite like the style, I get the train of thought and am sure it wasn't written by an LLM.

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