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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This is actually the issue. Why can’t people just do someone a favor instead of angling for distribution 

Genuine friends and colleagues > status games

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It’s usually the inverse relationship though. The online writing equivalent of name dropping

It costs you nothing and they get status.

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I would argue all academic journals are a status arb

Did Orwell or Strauss ever do this for their essays?

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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A book is an entirely different undertaking than a blog post

It would appear PG started this but inconclusive

I don't think it's a new trend to put statements such as these into acknowledgments. It's maybe just that in the past those would be sections in books that nobody would read?