>> Though I do find it interesting that people on Hacker news, Slashdot, and reddit will generally follow the convention of responding inline if they quote the parent post in their response.
> Actually, they don't. Most posts don't quote their parent at all
I never said that most people do. When you quoted my post in your response, you left off the clause where I said: "if they quote the parent post in their response".
> It's super-arrogant, and thankfully getting very rare, to insist that your way, just because it was first, and then completely failed to catch on, is the one true way and people are "unbelievably stupid" to disagree with you.
This aptly demonstrates that there value quoting the relevant parts of the post you're responding to. In this case, you're attributing statements that someone else made to me. If you want to argue against what you're quoting, then you should reply to the post that actually made those statements.
> Actually, they don't. Most posts don't quote their parent at all
I never said that most people do. When you quoted my post in your response, you left off the clause where I said: "if they quote the parent post in their response".
> It's super-arrogant, and thankfully getting very rare, to insist that your way, just because it was first, and then completely failed to catch on, is the one true way and people are "unbelievably stupid" to disagree with you.
This aptly demonstrates that there value quoting the relevant parts of the post you're responding to. In this case, you're attributing statements that someone else made to me. If you want to argue against what you're quoting, then you should reply to the post that actually made those statements.