• kartonrealista@lemmy.world
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    Ukrainian officials also claimed their Air Force claimed it had destroyed fifteen Russian-made drones and carried out ten group attacks, the outlet reports.

    That’s way too many qualifiers. I understand being cautious with your statements, but this is almost unreadable.

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        I read it, you read it… it’s a conversation thread.

        Is there some notion that replying on lemmy must be strictly to engage the parent comments author?

        Because I’ve never seen so many people policing replies as I have here. It’s like we hate engagement or something.

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        “You” doesn’t mean I’m talking to the bot, I’m using it as a general descriptor for a person. I could have said “I understand being cautious with one’s statements”, but that’s very formal and unnecessary in a comment on a social media website. I can easily imagine you reading a sentence like “You need to study really hard to get to Harvard” and think someone is talking to you personally instead of making a general statement.

        Communication is a cooperative process, interpreting what others say maliciously and automatically assuming they made a mistake is the definition of “bad faith engagement”.

        Edit: to clarify even further: since I commented on the text of the article, I’m replying to the summary. Maybe that’s the part you’re confused by.