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gwern comments on September 2013 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: ArisKatsaris 01 September 2013 11:05AM

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Comment author: gwern 04 September 2013 05:34:44PM 6 points [-]

I can't even get past the introduction:

  1. your header should not take up an entire screen
  2. "its", not "it's"
  3. you capitalize 'i' when it's a pronoun
  4. you punctuate the end of sentences, even in parenthetical comments
  5. spaces are a Good Thing

You are the reason Paul Graham made that comment.

Comment author: quanticle 04 September 2013 06:48:28PM *  1 point [-]

6. Line breaks should go in between paragraphs, not in between sentences in a paragraph. This is prose, not free verse.

EDIT: Markdown's auto-numbering of lists is infuriating.

Comment author: anandjeyahar 05 September 2013 01:53:34AM 4 points [-]

Thanks gwern. I was looking for criticism in the reasoning, but you have a point. I'll clean it up at the earliest opportunity.