Lol now we’re going to debate and call people out over their post syntax and use of italics? Is this what belongs on Lemmy? I guess it’s funny content in a way…
To begrudgingly answer your question, no I do not usually notice people italicizing titles in casual news aggregator comments. I do however notice it done in professional journalism. Neither of the cases trigger me either way.
Ok man. I get it. Anything that costs money is bad. Let’s never speak the name of any for profit company or business as it may give them free advertising. Thank you for keeping us all safe.
I briefly looked through user tal’s comment history, and found that they also italicized Google as a source of info in another comment. Does this mean they’re also shilling for Google? Imagine how pissed Kagi would be if they found out…
Maybe people shouldn’t promote either corporation this way? Or is that beyond the real of possibility and we should just accept that corporations will use people like this with quiet dignity?
Back to my original comment, I just don’t see how it was intended as a promotion. It was supportive to the comment to add context to the information contained thereof. It was literally one word in a long comment. No hyperlink. On top of that, most people don’t even know what Kagi is and there was no discernable effort to introduce or promote it.
What about that makes you so sure that they’re being used by a corporation? Should they have just listed the source as “internet search engine”?
If they “shill” for a not for profit search engine will you call that out as well?
Well yeah, italicizing it denotes that it’s the title of the source.
The “ad copy” was just them explaining why they personally like using Kagi, after you called them out for it.
With all that said, I think you’ll just end up Streisand effecting it in the end if you call it out over and over. 🤷♂️
Do people italicize the word Google when they “google” something? I sure as hell don’t and I have never seen anyone who does.
Lol now we’re going to debate and call people out over their post syntax and use of italics? Is this what belongs on Lemmy? I guess it’s funny content in a way…
To begrudgingly answer your question, no I do not usually notice people italicizing titles in casual news aggregator comments. I do however notice it done in professional journalism. Neither of the cases trigger me either way.
Professional journalism? You mean the thing that’s usually paid for with advertising?
Ok man. I get it. Anything that costs money is bad. Let’s never speak the name of any for profit company or business as it may give them free advertising. Thank you for keeping us all safe.
Why do you think this is about safety and not just wanting there to be one space on the internet where people aren’t shilling for corporations?
It was a joke, mate.
I briefly looked through user tal’s comment history, and found that they also italicized Google as a source of info in another comment. Does this mean they’re also shilling for Google? Imagine how pissed Kagi would be if they found out…
Maybe people shouldn’t promote either corporation this way? Or is that beyond the real of possibility and we should just accept that corporations will use people like this with quiet dignity?
Back to my original comment, I just don’t see how it was intended as a promotion. It was supportive to the comment to add context to the information contained thereof. It was literally one word in a long comment. No hyperlink. On top of that, most people don’t even know what Kagi is and there was no discernable effort to introduce or promote it.
What about that makes you so sure that they’re being used by a corporation? Should they have just listed the source as “internet search engine”?
If they “shill” for a not for profit search engine will you call that out as well?