Hey Owen, it’d be helpful to know for the future how I could improve the tone. I didn’t take myself as ignoring the premise of the question; it asked “If you acquired a large sum of money**, what would you do with it?” and mentioned donating it as one possible (boring) option. So I was saying that this option would be my answer (and thereby providing a comment which could be upvoted by people who agreed). Implicit in this is that I do indeed think that an increase in donation size of this order doesn’t let you beat the best charities—my understanding is that giving between $20,000 and $200,000 wouldn’t exhaust their room for more funding?
Yeah I thought about the implicit content and didn’t think there was any problem (which is why I didn’t downvote).
It’s always a little hard to pin down what rubs the wrong way about tone. But if I have a go, I guess I pick out two things:
not referring back to the fact that the suggestion you were making was kind of in the original post;
the second sentence sounds slightly patronising, in the context of a thread where all the suggestions are meant to be things the posters think could make a big difference.
Either of those on its own seems fine (if not ideal), but in combination it felt a bit patronising.
Hey Owen, it’d be helpful to know for the future how I could improve the tone. I didn’t take myself as ignoring the premise of the question; it asked “If you acquired a large sum of money**, what would you do with it?” and mentioned donating it as one possible (boring) option. So I was saying that this option would be my answer (and thereby providing a comment which could be upvoted by people who agreed). Implicit in this is that I do indeed think that an increase in donation size of this order doesn’t let you beat the best charities—my understanding is that giving between $20,000 and $200,000 wouldn’t exhaust their room for more funding?
Thanks for the feedback,
Tom
Yeah I thought about the implicit content and didn’t think there was any problem (which is why I didn’t downvote).
It’s always a little hard to pin down what rubs the wrong way about tone. But if I have a go, I guess I pick out two things:
not referring back to the fact that the suggestion you were making was kind of in the original post;
the second sentence sounds slightly patronising, in the context of a thread where all the suggestions are meant to be things the posters think could make a big difference.
Either of those on its own seems fine (if not ideal), but in combination it felt a bit patronising.
OK thanks, that’s helpful to know :)