Long-time reader. Happy to accept an olive branch. Your longposting fits right in here!
However I do recommend you use section headers for long posts like this when on LW instead of Substack, see this recent post for an example. Makes it easier to understand the thrust of a piece, track its flow, and jump back to important sections as desired.
Let me know if you want me to do a pass on cleaning up formatting in the way I expect to look best on LW (without any editorial changes, just making the dividers be proper dividers, and some small typography adjustments).
I’m reading this a couple days later and it looks like the formatting hasn’t been updated. I encourage you to take a pass at it! This was a good read but it would have been even better if it was easier to navigate.
(There’s also the old convention of initial-quotes-only on all but the final paragraph of a long quotation. It’s annoying, but it does have the effect on me of “What, no close-quote? Oh yeah, long quote...”)
Long-time reader. Happy to accept an olive branch. Your longposting fits right in here!
However I do recommend you use section headers for long posts like this when on LW instead of Substack, see this recent post for an example. Makes it easier to understand the thrust of a piece, track its flow, and jump back to important sections as desired.
(Also, blockquotes for quotations of a full paragraph or more.)
Yeah sry about the formatting stuff, this is what happens when you run your life from your phone
Let me know if you want me to do a pass on cleaning up formatting in the way I expect to look best on LW (without any editorial changes, just making the dividers be proper dividers, and some small typography adjustments).
I would hugely appreciate that and owe you one!
I’m reading this a couple days later and it looks like the formatting hasn’t been updated. I encourage you to take a pass at it! This was a good read but it would have been even better if it was easier to navigate.
It has been updated, did I miss anything? We now have proper blockquotes and horizontal rules and the jazz.
(There’s also the old convention of initial-quotes-only on all but the final paragraph of a long quotation. It’s annoying, but it does have the effect on me of “What, no close-quote? Oh yeah, long quote...”)