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    1. …in reply to @isaackarth
      @isaackarth right: the message in the email is "can you do this thing" + "i am asking nicely", but of course you can't just say "i am asking nicely" because those words actually mean "i am being straight up aggressive"
  1. …in reply to @v21
    @isaackarth the labor required to write the nice email provides a social cost that means you definitely have bothered to take time and effort to ask nicely... but automating that labor makes that signal less signal-ful.