@mattwilcox That's an oddly sharp rebuke to level at a stranger who asked someone else for help.

What made their request so objectionable, to you?

@GoodNewsGreyShoes They didn’t though. They said “TL;DW?”.

That’s not asking for help. That’s an incredibly terse way to say “what you made is too long and I didn’t watch it”.

Interpreting that as a “request” involves adding in as much context on your part as interpreting my comment as a rebuke.

In both cases; the “request” and the “rebuke” are not in the original statements.

@mattwilcox
>>"Interpreting that as a “request” involves adding in as much context on your part as interpreting my comment as a rebuke."

1st half: Genuinely, what purpose does a question mark serve if not to indicate a request?🤔

2nd half: You got me there!😅 I absolutely agree that, had I given your words the same benefit-of-the-doubt I'd applied to the "TL;DW?", your statement *could* have been intended as a completely earnest suggestion without even a HINT of disdain or rebuke.🙏

Were they?

@GoodNewsGreyShoes They were. The video is well worth taking the time, and almost anyone (myself included) will come out of it more educated.

[edit] I’ll also add; some lessons are better learned not through a summary but through the actual process of learning. A summary and an education are different. Otherwise school would be a week of cliff notes and done. These are topics I feel deserve learning; because the summary isn’t really that new.

There’s value in spending time.