#writingstyle — Public Fediverse posts

The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments

https://boazsobrado.com/blog/2026/04/15/the-rise-of-the-em-dash-in-hacker-news-comments/

#HackerNews #EmDash #HackerNews #Comments #WritingStyle #Typography

New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes

https://www.marginalia.nu/weird-ai-crap/hn/

#HackerNews #NewAccounts #HN #EMdashes #AITrends #HackerNews #WritingStyle

https://www.storyangles.com/post/minimalism-vs-maximalism-in-writing

In writing styles, two opposing approaches steal the spotlight: minimalism and maximalism.
Sparse prose or elaborate descriptions? See how they stack up against each other.

#minimalism #maximalism #writingstyle #StoryAngles #fiction #writingcommunity #writer

On the keyboard today, I bash out a small rant about Acronyms

They are great, as they save unnecessary repetition, but bear in mind that assumption is a foolish thing when writing.

https://forkingmad.blog/acronyms/

#blogpost #acronyms #writingstyle

Human writers have always used the em dash

https://www.theringer.com/2025/08/20/pop-culture/em-dash-use-ai-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-google-gemini

#HackerNews #HumanWriters #EmDash #WritingStyle #AIChatGPT #LanguageEvolution

Question: you're a person that use a day-first date when writing — Do you use a leading zero for days less than 10?

05 November 1955 vs 5 November 1955

Does your decision change when using the 3-letter month abbreviations?

05 Nov 1955 vs 5 Nov 1955

NOTE: all numeric dates (e.g. 5.11.1955) are not considered.

Rock the vote. Please boost for reach.

Pick two.

#dateFormats #WritingStyle #writing #standards

Learn the tells of AI writing: em dashes, rule of three, bullet points, and more.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=0lmGvlbBoFNyCoHG&v=9Ch4a6ffPZY&feature=youtu.be

#AIwriting #GenerativeAI #WritingStyle #LLMs #AIwritingStyle #Shibboleths #RuleOfThree #EmDashes

Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting

https://antirez.com/news/150

#HackerNews #Reproducing #Hacker #News #writing #style #fingerprinting #HackerNews #WritingStyle #Fingerprinting #TechCommunity #DataAnalysis

In the latest issue of Brevity, Sila Hansen pens a lovely flash craft essay (short essay on design) on an important aspect of good writing: "Against Being Good."

"For the same several years, I have failed miserably at writing this essay. I couldn’t figure out why. It felt dishonest, even when everything I wrote was “true.” I’ve put it aside and restarted it dozens of times..."

https://brevitymag.com/current-issue/against-being-good/

#writing #queerwriting #transwriting #narrativedesign #voice #writingstyle