> This is a great article, but it’d be much better as five much smaller articles
I can't understand how one could read this as an implication of fact. The phrase "great article" is a qualitative assessment. So is "better".
It wasn't necessary for the parent to "correct" the poster for not qualifying that their comment as opinion. It's clear the comment is opinion on its face.
"Correcting" the poster for not couching their comment in some kind of explicit language that qualifies it as an opinion seems needless at best, and pedantic, rude, and patronizing at worst.
I absolutely hate that I'm so fixated on this, but I can't let it go.
The OP's comment was:
> This is a great article, but it’d be much better as five much smaller articles
I can't understand how one could read this as an implication of fact. The phrase "great article" is a qualitative assessment. So is "better".
It wasn't necessary for the parent to "correct" the poster for not qualifying that their comment as opinion. It's clear the comment is opinion on its face.
"Correcting" the poster for not couching their comment in some kind of explicit language that qualifies it as an opinion seems needless at best, and pedantic, rude, and patronizing at worst.
I absolutely hate that I'm so fixated on this, but I can't let it go.