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Me: “Get off my lawn!” (w/apologies to Grayson D.) I’m thinking about finally closing comments on my lengthy anti-hashtag screed from February of 2008. My opinion of them hasn’t changed much. But they have taken on more frequent use within Twitter, and in the meantime Twitter usage has grown, spread out, taken on more users [...]

Update(finally:) Comments closed below. Followed up here. Explained in less than 140 characters: What’s #irritating about #this sentence? It kind of looks like a representation of someone with food in their mouth while they talk. I’ve been asked about a half-dozen times in the last couple of days what’s behind my curmudgeonly policy of removing [...]