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Hm...that comment did sound like a scoff or sneer to me ("I offer $50 to the AK defense fund..."), and capital letters were in fact used.
What if I had used "balked" instead?
This one surprises me. The use of hyperlinks to simultaneously provide convenient references and subtly convey conversational nuance has always been for me one of the more enjoyable aspects of Eliezer's writing; I probably learned it from him.
Yikes. This is bad advice for me, since I already obsess about this, and as a result write very little. (I have a hard time allowing myself to just "write what's in my head".) If this is anything like a widespread view, I may have to seriously reconsider whatever plans I may have had of top-level posting in the future.
I like this figure of speech; I wish I had come up with it.
That's probably the case with everyone, though, isn't it? Given the constraints of time and attention, it seems hard to avoid this.
A tricky point! But I think I would worry if I was ignoring a highly-scored argument.