Jeff Feiwell
@hyper
The absolute worst trend in writing is the now standard “thank you to xyz for reading drafts” It’s a thinly veiled status arb opposed to letting the writing stand on its own There is no reason to publicly thank a friend for spending 15 minutes marking up your draft. This type of thing is baked into friendship
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
academic backgrounds would disagree, acknowledgements in journals are quite common not for status arb (although perhaps sometimes is) but simply attribution
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Jeff Feiwell
@hyper
I would argue all academic journals are a status arb Did Orwell or Strauss ever do this for their essays?
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