I've just noticed a correlation between that word and weird takes. When a comment refers to talking to "folks" it always seems like some weird explanatory comment that isn't completely true. Like "Trust me folks, this is the case" would be an example.
I feel ya. Not on that example, it's a bit weird to me even with your explanation (though I understand it more), but I do the same thing. There are certain things that, if I see it in a comment, I will immediately stop reading and disregard that person's opinion. I used to downvote for these things (and, arguably, some of them do deserve a DV), but now I just ignore it. DVs don't really do anything on the Fediverse, and the more valuable contribution is to give a genuine answer. If something isn't worth contributing to, I feel like the most effective thing is to simply ignore it and move on.
I'll give you one: if you can't spell "have" after "should" or "could" (but you can spell those words), then you are not qualified to have an audience with me. And I don't mean saying "should've"... IYKYK.
Okay, one more. If you use an acronym (or initialism, I don't care) and I search it, and it's not defined above the fold (i.e. without scrolling), your opinion is null and void. I've used "IYKYK" twice in the last 5 minutes. I checked, DuckDuckGo tells you what it is in the first result. I figure everyone knows "If You Know, You Know" but if not, anyone can highlight a word/phrase and long-press/right click it and choose "look up" or "search [your chosen/default search engine]". Alternatively, if you wanna use a weird one that DDG/whatever can't define, just define it the first time you use it. Everybody isn't gonna do the research.
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That’s all, folks.
In that case, it is probably better that way, folks
You’re just filtering out content based on regional linguistics
well you see. folks will be folks. their just folks, folkusing around. there is a bit of folk in all of us. folk me. folk you.
totally understandable. folks these days just don't get it.
why?
I've just noticed a correlation between that word and weird takes. When a comment refers to talking to "folks" it always seems like some weird explanatory comment that isn't completely true. Like "Trust me folks, this is the case" would be an example.
I feel ya. Not on that example, it's a bit weird to me even with your explanation (though I understand it more), but I do the same thing. There are certain things that, if I see it in a comment, I will immediately stop reading and disregard that person's opinion. I used to downvote for these things (and, arguably, some of them do deserve a DV), but now I just ignore it. DVs don't really do anything on the Fediverse, and the more valuable contribution is to give a genuine answer. If something isn't worth contributing to, I feel like the most effective thing is to simply ignore it and move on.
I'll give you one: if you can't spell "have" after "should" or "could" (but you can spell those words), then you are not qualified to have an audience with me. And I don't mean saying "should've"... IYKYK.
Okay, one more. If you use an acronym (or initialism, I don't care) and I search it, and it's not defined above the fold (i.e. without scrolling), your opinion is null and void. I've used "IYKYK" twice in the last 5 minutes. I checked, DuckDuckGo tells you what it is in the first result. I figure everyone knows "If You Know, You Know" but if not, anyone can highlight a word/phrase and long-press/right click it and choose "look up" or "search [your chosen/default search engine]". Alternatively, if you wanna use a weird one that DDG/whatever can't define, just define it the first time you use it. Everybody isn't gonna do the research.