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Ugh why can't you read the article without Javascript? Trying to do that gives you the error message: " You need to enable JavaScript to run this app."
That reminds me. There was a post on Lemmy recently about "graceful degradation". One useful tip from that post was about maintaining a balance with your sites.
DO NOT use Javascript to implement vital content and navigation (especially if you are running a blog or some other information heavy site).
If you do use Javascript, only use it to support 'nice-to-have' features. Good candidates for 'nice-to-have' features would be things that can break, but wouldn't impact the user experience significantly.
Anyways why am I yapping about this? I'm hoping this is read by someone planning to start a website or blog, and that they'll take this into consideration.
Edit: Double ugh. I just noticed they used an LLM to write a 5 minute article. Dude literally left em dashes and kept the grammar the same. You can't make this shit up.
Are we at war with em dashes now? —? I'm starting to feel like the only person who actually knows how to type them on a keyboard.
They are one of several signs of LLM writing. That said if you've always used them then you do you
Edit: To the idiots who downvoted me: The article's author literally mentions that he used AI to write it, so it isn't speculation on my part. That said, my point still stands: em dashes are just one of several tell-tale signs of LLM writing. See here, here, and here.
Obviously, AI picked this up from writers who used the em dash. However, ChatGPT uses it excessively and so now it is a sign of its writing. Practically speaking you should avoid it in your future writing, since no one really cares if it is a false positive or not.
Final Edit: I see replies stating that from people who've been using it for years who don't want to stop because LLM's appropriated it. I already left a Lemmy comment here that more-or-less goes over why you should care about optics (especially when writing in an activist adjacent space), but what do I know 🤷
You're not getting downvoted for the LLM thing. You're getting downvoted for doubling down on a stupid argument. Em dashes -- and en dashes for that matter -- have legitimate uses in the English language. One symptom does not make a diagnosis. English is barely a respectable language in the first place. Dumbing it down even further to satisfy your preconceptions is, simply, stupid.
"One symptom does not make a diagnosis."
Read what I wrote again, slowly. Ask ChatGPT to summarize if you need to: "However, ChatGPT uses it excessively and so now it is a sign of its writing. Practically speaking you should avoid it in your future writing, since no one really cares if it is a false positive or not."
Anti-intellectualism as a defence. Nice. Abandon grammar and take language where an LLM can't follow. Surely we'll be able to tell a text written by a human from one written by a machine if the human writes it like a dumbass, I can't see anything wrong with that. i mean why even use proper punctuation and capitalization an ai wouldnt write sumthin like dis isnnnt it better you can tell a human wrote dis
Have I made my point?
Anti-intellectualism... lol?
Anyways if you go back to my original comment, you'll see that my original Javascript comments were written as advice towards prospective blog / site owners, in an attempt to get them to create something UX friendly. My comments on LLM are an extension of that: if you use AI (or write closely to AI) to write your blog you'll just shake your readers' confidence.
I have no idea where you got anti-intellectualism from, you'll have to show me the hat you pulled that from sometime. That said you can substitute em dashes, they don't hold dominion over the English language lol
Edit: Oh you edited your comment without putting an Edit line. The above was a reply to your original comment. I'm not changing mine
Also weird:
Again, can't make this up