Notifications Suck

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5 points·stephenjayakar··4 comments

Is this what counts for discourse nowadays? Vacuous, lazy, teenage stream-of-consciousness spewed out into a world already inundated by attention-grabs and staggering under the burden of too much information. What a bullshit directionless diatribe. What an infuriating 'hook' to remove all capital letters. What, the author is too cool to use them? Or is taking a principled stance against, what, the English language? Crikey, maybe I spend way too much time on the internet, but I wish more fucking people would ask "Does it improve upon the silence"? Idiotic.

> I wish more fucking people would ask "Does it improve upon the silence"?

Consider taking your own advice. The original post, at least, might be a prompt for someone to helpfully reconsider their own relationship with attention-hijacking notifications. And, yes, admittedly yours might prompt a reader to reconsider and improve their writing style - but it certainly doesn't pass the "third gate"[0]

[0] https://medium.com/zen-pills/the-3-gates-of-speech-305eaaa99...

It's a pretty average Medium post submitted to HN by the person who wrote it. What do you expect? Most of what gets posted on Twitter or even HN is lacking in substance too.

Be the change you want to see in the world. What's your blog URL?

yes, you might be spending too much time on the internet.

on capital letters: https://www.aspendailynews.com/news/for-bayer-capital-letter...

i'm sorry this post bothered you so! we're both clearly bothered by attention grabs -- it's what motivated me to write this post to begin with, and for you to write your comment.

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