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Re:A case for ending lockdown by japhyr on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:06PM (#23025634)
> This is a living document and we encourage contributions in the form of pull requests.

Who is "we"? I understand your use of "we" to speak from the perspective of us as a society through most of the article, but this makes it sound like there's more than one author.

Re:A case for ending lockdown by DarthGhandi on Thursday April 30, 2020 @02:02AM (#23027873)
This is fairly common for many styles of writing even when it's clearly just one author. Considering he's open to pull requests it makes even more sense.

https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2945/choice-of-...

Re:A case for ending lockdown by ryankemper on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:27PM (#23025809)
s/we/I

I chose to use "we" both because it fits with the semi-formal tone better, but more importantly because I want to give others a chance to open PRs if they choose to do so, so I was basically future-proofing for a possible scenario where I wasn't the only contributor.

Re:A case for ending lockdown by ryankemper on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @11:00PM (#23027025)
FWIW, I will probably circle back here and switch to "I", since I think it's probably worth it to avoid confusion.
Re:A case for ending lockdown by mchusma on Thursday April 30, 2020 @08:30AM (#23030100)
I may submit a PR then it would become "we".
Re:A case for ending lockdown by ryankemper on Thursday April 30, 2020 @05:03PM (#23036099)
Thanks. I'm going to leave it as is. As another commentator has mentioned, use of the singular "we" is very common in academic writing anyway, not that I'm saying that this blog post of mine is "real" scientific research or anything