I've met plenty of very, very wealthy and successful
individuals to know that how you type has absolutely no
connection to how much respect you give readers, and how
much they think about their responses.
I've read enough on the internet to know that how people type is strongly correlated to their respect for their readers, whether they take long enough to think about their response and, above all, their clarity of thought.
In other words: your personal experience and opinion isn't relevant or convincing, because others have other priors.
The barrier to entry of participating on HN is not how you
word, or begin your point - but the value you add.
The value you add is very much in how you choose your words. Every single one of our most interesting contributors could make any comment vicious and denigrating without losing a bit of the valuable content. That would seriously diminish the value of their posts.
You cannot clearly separate presentation and contents. The presentation always influences how the contents are perceived and rated. You could be the smartest guy in the world: if you type without using caps, nobody is going to realize, because your text gets harder to read and understand. You can probably think of many more examples yourself, where presentation detracts from content.
In other words: your personal experience and opinion isn't relevant or convincing, because others have other priors.
The value you add is very much in how you choose your words. Every single one of our most interesting contributors could make any comment vicious and denigrating without losing a bit of the valuable content. That would seriously diminish the value of their posts.You cannot clearly separate presentation and contents. The presentation always influences how the contents are perceived and rated. You could be the smartest guy in the world: if you type without using caps, nobody is going to realize, because your text gets harder to read and understand. You can probably think of many more examples yourself, where presentation detracts from content.