Email Sent by Michael Hastings Hours Before His Death Mentions ‘Big Story’

Re:Email Sent by Michael Hastings Hours Before His Death Men... by jfoster on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @08:23AM (#5938893)

I'm surprised that you interpreted it that way. You're right that my comment likely involved very little effort, but that isn't how I assess the value of comments. I thought my brief comment would be enough to communicate what I wanted to, but it wasn't.

Let's put this down to being a well-intended miscommunication and move on.

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Re:Email Sent by Michael Hastings Hours Before His Death Men... by Goladus on Thursday June 27, 2013 @11:40AM (#5952844)

I'm surprised that you interpreted it that way.

And?

You're right that my comment likely involved very little effort, but that isn't how I assess the value of comments.

Of course effort is not the only way to evaluate a comment. There's also relevance, insight, knowledge, creativity, humor, and more. The point was that one could go around tagging "And?" to every single comment on the site if no one objected. It's an ambiguous challenge that doesn't add anything constructive.

Let's put this down to being a well-intended miscommunication and move on.

Sure, but just to be clear blame was never my goal.

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