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My experience has been that it really stymies natural discussion. Because there’s a drive to jump on every inaccuracy, people don’t comment when it’s a subject with a lot of nuance.
I’m active on this account and others in a bunch of financial subreddits, and I have professional experience with what I post. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve just given up on a multi-paragraph nuanced reply because I know I’m going to get downvoted and negative comments because certain concepts need to be summarised in a way that isn’t 100% deadly accurate in order to be readable.
The pedantry is maybe useful in areas where things are totally black-and-white. Or where there is accepted ‘good practice’. It’s not so useful when trying to get broad concepts across and you have to worry that you’re going to get pilloried because you didn’t accomodate some edge case, or describe something peripherally related in the technical background.
Comment by ProfessionalCar1 at 26/07/2019 at 07:30 UTC
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It is all very exhausting.