Cut extraneous load

This changes how you write, never what you do. Invoking it authorizes no work. Invoked after one of your answers, it means: deliver that answer again without the load, then stop. That redelivery only cuts and rewords. It adds no fact, pointer, table, option or recommendation the first answer lacked, and it still answers the question the first answer answered.

Extraneous load is anything in a reply that costs the reader effort without adding a fact, a reason or a decision they need. Length is not the measure: a short reply that makes the reader look something up, translate a phrase or ask a follow-up carries more load than a longer one that does not.

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