Summarise and parahprase

*** *** Applying these two actions has great value in life; They allow for time saving through wrapping up verbiage - lengthy writing or speech - succinctly so others may digest it, the key points, more rapidly. I use it a lot professionally (where possible/appropriate) and in my personal life when the "long version" isn't required. Summarising and paraphrasing...I like them a lot. #### But not when people comment to me There's a lot of people on Hive that feel inclined to comment on other people's post simply by summarising or paraphrasing what the author has actually written in the post themselves. > Lazy, unimaginative fuckers. I'm not sure if they think it's clever, or if they think the author will think of them as switched-on and savvy or if they're just so fucken stupid that they can't read the post and comment with intelligence and validity. It's a wasteful comment, especially so to those who have taken the time to use their own intelligence, time and effort to author the original post - having it paraphrased back to them in a comment is not welcome. #### Relevant, interesting, valid and concise I think people commenting should make a concerted effort to combine the elements above when commenting on a post as a very minimum. Irrelevant comments don't have value, boring comments even less value, invalid commenting makes the person look like a dumbass and being verbose (too many words) puts undue time-pressure on others and that verbosity doesn't make them seem smart, just wordy. > **Relevant, interesting, valid and concise.** Commenting on other people's posts is a great way to open up relationships, something I did from the very outset, and with continued effort it will pay off. It doesn't mean one has to write 400 words in comment to a 200 word post, it doesn't mean one has to be the most intelligent when responding...It simply means one needs to apply relevance, interest, validity and be concise...it doesn't hurt to add some passion and personality too. Words are clever, a few can say a lot more than a lot if used well - what is not clever is paraphrasing or summarising what has been written in the initial post, *the author wrote it themselves so don't need it to be reiterated.* Oh, and while I'm on the subject...responding with AI is as unwelcome as mindless and unintelligent paraphrasing and summarising of an author's post as well - You have a brain, use it.