I didn’t vote myself, but my feeling is that it’s a combination of
Innocuous but mostly-irrelevant personal opinion;
Implicit unhelpful advice / criticism of OP.
Like, the literal content is mostly just “I don’t like receiving cold emails”. Okay, so why are you telling us this? If we assume you intended to communicate more than just the literal content, it becomes the advice/moralizing “don’t send cold emails”. But if that is what you intend, it’s kind of passive-aggressive and it’s not very helpful. If you think one should never send cold emails, why not? If you think there are circumstances where it’s okay, which circumstances?
My current guess is that you didn’t intend that advice/moralizing? But I still felt it in your comment, and I expect it’s a large part of why you got downvoted.
Thanks. My intent was to dissuade people from taking the post as “these are conditions you should cold-contact people on LW” (which is how I interpreted it), by pointing out that I’d prefer not to be contacted at all, even with the recommended information.
I didn’t vote myself, but my feeling is that it’s a combination of
Innocuous but mostly-irrelevant personal opinion;
Implicit unhelpful advice / criticism of OP.
Like, the literal content is mostly just “I don’t like receiving cold emails”. Okay, so why are you telling us this? If we assume you intended to communicate more than just the literal content, it becomes the advice/moralizing “don’t send cold emails”. But if that is what you intend, it’s kind of passive-aggressive and it’s not very helpful. If you think one should never send cold emails, why not? If you think there are circumstances where it’s okay, which circumstances?
My current guess is that you didn’t intend that advice/moralizing? But I still felt it in your comment, and I expect it’s a large part of why you got downvoted.
Thanks. My intent was to dissuade people from taking the post as “these are conditions you should cold-contact people on LW” (which is how I interpreted it), by pointing out that I’d prefer not to be contacted at all, even with the recommended information.