How apt. Here is a principle that tries to define sane communication within a community and espouses flexibility and understanding. A hyperliteral reading of a statement that has a very reasonable interpretation (i.e., that it has been implicitly understood up to the point it was put to writing) is precisely why things like this exist.

We are not debuggers and are expected to look beyond words and grasp intent.

Hey, I didn't even get into the dissonance between "Everyone will be reasonable" but then "Do not be offended if someone suggests you are not being reasonable."

To be clear, I'm not addressing you specifically since you're clearly posting out of humor. When someone composes a message with errors, we can engage 1) the erroneous message or 2) the message without errors or 3) the meaning behind the message. It's unfortunate how news aggregation boards with short-lived posts - reddit, HN included - tend to reward slams at levels 1 & 2 when the conversation should really start at level 3.

Looks quite written to me...I just read it.

Care to expand on that?

It's quite literally written.

I meant the "Hmmm" - it's a useless comment unless there's some deeper context to having an unwritten culture that I am missing.

I think rboyd (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13670491) was suggesting that Isamu's (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13670371) "Hmmmm" is simply a witty comment on the idea that this thing that is written is part of an unwritten culture, rather than any judgement regarding the existence or value of such a culture.

But the unwritten culture is not.