It's better to use grammatically correct and conventionally accepted statements.
Beginning a response with "I agree" or "Good point" reads pleasantly, without the nails-on-chalkboard effect of the internet-nerd-herd-mind irritating-and-head-scratching-to-regular-people nerd-convention of "This".
Stupid nerds. They seem to like to demonstrate how "non-conforming" they are, but reading sites like this, or worse, reddit, shows how readily they imitate one big nerd group.
And the user "mindcrime", commenting elsewhere in this thread, is a fine specimen for my above points:
... I'm the kind of person who likes doing things
differently, just to irk people like you. I don't see
much value in blind adherence to tradition for
tradition's sake. I like killing sacred cows, stirring
the pot...
... I'm a radically individualistic anarcho-capitalist /
libertarian / atheist type, so I'm just a touch outside
of what you might call mainstream...
Oh yes, so "radically individualistic." More like his internet-Dawkins atheism is keeping him in a perpetual
mental state of rebellion, so that he feels the need
to "kill sacred cows" towards people he doesn't even know,
by "stirring the pot." The attitude and nerd-rebellion with grammar is comical.
I think this points to why I dislike "this": it doesn't flow in a normal conversation. Imagine talking to someone in person and responding to a point by stating "this." You use "this" to show people something they hadn't noticed before, not something they just said.
Beginning a response with "I agree" or "Good point" reads pleasantly, without the nails-on-chalkboard effect of the internet-nerd-herd-mind irritating-and-head-scratching-to-regular-people nerd-convention of "This".
Stupid nerds. They seem to like to demonstrate how "non-conforming" they are, but reading sites like this, or worse, reddit, shows how readily they imitate one big nerd group.