You may well be right. I think what’s important to me here, is that the fact be highlighted that the cost here is coming from this property of readers. Like, I don’t like the norm proposal, but if it were “made a norm” (whatever that means), I’d want it to be emphatically tagged with ”… and this norm is only here because of the general and alarming state of affairs where people will read things for tone in addition to content, do groupthink, do info cascades, and take things as adversarial moves in a group conflict calling for side-choosing”.
You may well be right. I think what’s important to me here, is that the fact be highlighted that the cost here is coming from this property of readers. Like, I don’t like the norm proposal, but if it were “made a norm” (whatever that means), I’d want it to be emphatically tagged with ”… and this norm is only here because of the general and alarming state of affairs where people will read things for tone in addition to content, do groupthink, do info cascades, and take things as adversarial moves in a group conflict calling for side-choosing”.