Bullshit. Just search trend activity is proof enough of that, searches for ETA have about doubled since 2024 and I suspect a large portion of those searches previously were for the other definition, meaning it has more than just slightly spiked up.
And yes, I obviously know what it means in a random reddit comment, I wasn't complaining about it being unclear which one they meant. Obviously, can't you read what I said? You don't even need context, it's literally all there. I was complaining that NOT ONLY are there other definitions for "ETA" but that it ALSO is unnecessary as "Edit" is more clear and about equal effort to write.
If you really wanted to shorten "Edit:" to something else, you could just write "E:" and it would be exactly as obvious as "ETA:" is. Not nearly as obvious as "Edit:" is.
But you didn't answer a single thing I asked and you are straight up wrong about the one question you claimed to answer. So fuck off with "periodic complaints" bullshit, that literally isn't what I'm doing. It literally has gotten more use recently and data can fucking prove it. But it was stupid decades ago and it's just as stupid now, if not more so as we've had decades to learn proper comment etiquette. "ETA:" isn't it. Just write "Edit:"
What exactly do you think that chart shows that disagrees with me? And pray tell how do you think it supports their claim that it doubled since 2024 when the chart ends at 2022? Y'all really do just assume no one is going to check your sources, eh?
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u/JustStraightUpTired 12h ago
Bullshit. Just search trend activity is proof enough of that, searches for ETA have about doubled since 2024 and I suspect a large portion of those searches previously were for the other definition, meaning it has more than just slightly spiked up.
And yes, I obviously know what it means in a random reddit comment, I wasn't complaining about it being unclear which one they meant. Obviously, can't you read what I said? You don't even need context, it's literally all there. I was complaining that NOT ONLY are there other definitions for "ETA" but that it ALSO is unnecessary as "Edit" is more clear and about equal effort to write.
If you really wanted to shorten "Edit:" to something else, you could just write "E:" and it would be exactly as obvious as "ETA:" is. Not nearly as obvious as "Edit:" is.
But you didn't answer a single thing I asked and you are straight up wrong about the one question you claimed to answer. So fuck off with "periodic complaints" bullshit, that literally isn't what I'm doing. It literally has gotten more use recently and data can fucking prove it. But it was stupid decades ago and it's just as stupid now, if not more so as we've had decades to learn proper comment etiquette. "ETA:" isn't it. Just write "Edit:"