Jayson_Virissimo comments on Anki decks by LW users - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Pablo_Stafforini 02 April 2013 05:50PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (57)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 10 April 2013 05:31:50AM 0 points [-]

This is the first (and probably last) time I will upvote a comment containing an emoticon.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 March 2015 11:04:28AM 4 points [-]

Wow, why? Body language is an important part of metacommunication, and due to the limitations of text forums like this I think they are very necessary.

For example "thanks for the idea" can come accross as politely dismissing, "yeah whatever" while "thanks for the idea! :)" is heartfelt.

Exclamation and question marks are simply the first forms of emoticons.