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It is disappointing to see that the comments here are dominated by tone policing and semantics. We ought to be able to look at the substance of the criticism and not get distracted by some of the word choices. The post makes several concrete claims in clear language that are worthy of discussion.

I use discord, I have a mild color anomaly in my vision, and have had problems reading low-contrast elements in the UI. Discord's update gives us a useful example of a major release that violates some dark mode design best practices.


> It is disappointing to see that the comments here are dominated by tone policing and semantics.

I agree, but I'm afraid the argument that the post is making is not based on a logical series of steps. It doesn't follow the typical convention of observation, problem, evidence, conclusion. The post is substantially an emotional outpouring and a call to action. This changes the dialectics.

If you're going to create a central claim that is solely Pathos based, the tone and semantics of how you do so become the most important thing in your argument and, to your point, this is why this post comes off so _wrong_. The post author failed at convincing this audience in large part because of their tone and semantics.

Accusations of tone policing are themselves tone policing, so there's disappointment all around. How we use language is important to plenty of people; there's a reason OP is the top comment.

There are indeed discussion-worthy claims in the post, and they're discussed elsewhere in the comments. Why hijack the top comment to change the subject?

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