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A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

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Re: A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

#121
An unnecessarily long comment that rambles on about a simple core point, that could be summed up in one sentence but has excessive detail added to ensure that everyone gets it.

(Are sentences like this akin to literary quines? The sentence describes its own purpose/function, while also fulfilling that function. It feels like constructing one should be easy, but ends up being harder than it looks.)

Re: A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

#127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off topic summary of the discourse regarding a pet peeve that litterally no one has.

A reminded that the riff raff can go to the “other site” when these threads occur.

A haiku comment,

Describing its own structure,

Hoping for upvotes.

Re: A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

#128
post #14

A poor attempt at joining the convo too late because I don't browse /new like everyone else. No one upvotes, and I question my intelligence for the 3rd time today.

A random reply hours later, long after the post has left the front page

A second reply that happened because the article reappeared on the front page.

Re: A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

#129

A comment complaining this was obviously written by an AI, and the standard template is a tell. A philosophical observation about what that says about the state on online discourse. Link to the Dead Internet Wikipedia page.

An xkcd link summarising large number of all points discussed
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