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Re:I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet by samatman on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:22PM (#25260807)
There seem to a be a couple of "camps" in HN. Broadly, those who enjoy reading, and those who don't, but endure it as a means to obtain information.

I'm in the former camp, and enjoyed your writeup quite a bit.

The latter camp will reliably show up when writing is any more long-winded than it absolutely must be, and will a) summarize (good) and b) complain (annoying).

It is what it is. Congrats on your whimsical creation!

Re:I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet by heimatau on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @12:44PM (#25267576)
Maybe a constructive message would be 'please post a summary at the top and a stronger conclusion at the bottom' since we're conditioned this way by various written structures.
Re:I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet by samatman on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:42PM (#25278950)
I would argue that @OisinMoran followed this exact structure, the first section (above the fold) has this:

> Fundamentally the challenge is just correctly guessing what ID a given tweet is going to get, then appending that onto the URL for our profile and tweeting it.

And of course, the strong conclusion at the bottom is the Tweet itself.

Re:I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet by OisinMoran on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:33PM (#25260871)
Thank you!