Nathan M Green
Nov 5 · 1 min read

What the hell is the appropriate amount of claps? How are you meant to rate a response between 1–50 for a polite acknowledgement you’ve seen the message?

Or should I actually be judging responses on their level of sincerity and emotional attachment?

50 claps for showing genuine interest and friendly sincerity. Hold up, but you’ve tarred that with splitting a line and not economising on space. No inappropriate exclamations either! 6 claps dropped. Hang on, were you just being polite after all? Mmm not sure. Drop another 10 claps as I might be projecting my excessive neediness. Mmm I could be over compensating now though, so I’ll add 5 back on.

My head hurts. This is too complicated.

That’s better. Much simpler.

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I’ve missed writing my usual bollocks :)

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