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Re:CSS in GitHub Readmes by pwdisswordfish0 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @07:15PM (#25353547)
First of all, even if that were true, it wouldn't matter. If a project author is participating in the culture that involves the compulsion "to improve most first impressions for their project", that's just the toxic culture associated with traditional social media projected into a different venue, except it has a facade of respectability that keeps people from calling it out in the way people call out Instagram bullshit.

Secondly, it's not true. Don't care about the deleterious effects that comes from overvaluing social media impressions? Want to take part in that messed up, Black Mirror-esque world anyway? Take all that junk you're shoving into the README and put it on a real landing page. No one is forcing anyone to link people to the GitHub repo for first impressions.

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Re:CSS in GitHub Readmes by eyelidlessness on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @07:27PM (#25353649)
Wow. A little flourish on a GH repo front page (which is also a README, because it’s been both for years) is Black Mirror-esque?
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Re:CSS in GitHub Readmes by pwdisswordfish0 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @08:47PM (#25354375)
One-liner strawmanning isn't hard.

EDIT:

> which is also a README, because it’s been both for years

What is this even supposed to be a response to?

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Re:CSS in GitHub Readmes by eyelidlessness on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @09:25PM (#25354595)
This isn’t worth my time except to say so.
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Re:CSS in GitHub Readmes by pwdisswordfish0 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:18PM (#25355306)
Right, it was clear by the previous comments that you've figured out that low-effort spurious remarks pay off double since they sap energy from anyone foolish enough to try to address them while costing almost nothing on your end to make.
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Re:CSS in GitHub Readmes by eyelidlessness on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:40AM (#25355714)
Not at all. I responded candidly with my own perspective and you took the most uncharitable interpretation and twice (now thrice) treated me as if I was responding as venomously as you are. I have abusive family and exes for that, I don’t need it from strangers.
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Re:CSS in GitHub Readmes by pwdisswordfish0 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:58AM (#25355789)
"Wow."
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Re:CSS in GitHub Readmes by eyelidlessness on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:05AM (#25355816)
Yeah okay I’m sorry that I was astonished by that. I don’t know how you made the connection between putting a little style in a README and Black Mirror. You went there very quickly and I didn’t have much to contribute other than surprise. I meant no offense.
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