Ander comments on Open Thread, December 2-8, 2013 - Less Wrong
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Thumbs up to Benito for having the interest in these topics at that age. Rolf, why the rant against him? We should be encouraging to young people interested in rationality and bayesian probability.
Rolf's comment is a fine example of the aphorism 'praise should be delivered in public, criticism in private'. When I spot someone making a grammar error or formatting error or other minor error, I try to PM them rather than make a public comment. For two reasons:
I'll note that, whilst I found Rolf's comment mildly musing, it did not have a significant effect on the probability of me speaking like that in the future.
Gwern mentioning more in passing that it was a little annoying and off-putting, without being aggressive or rude about it, has affected me - I wasn't aware it was either. I probably won't use it again.