Getting along in the Python community

If people can tell your answers are canned, the implication can be that you aren't willing to engage with the addressee as an individual, or that their question/opinion is not worth differentiating from others who have come before.

That might be fair (this might be the 20th time someone has asked what a particular error means), but it's not too shocking that some people don't like that implication.

In a customer context, I might have canned content, but I frame it with non-canned content to say "yeah, we're doing the canned thing, but I did read your thing, and here's why I think this is relevant".

This doesn't mean you should do this, but those are the reasons why it could be worth doing.

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For one-line responses, they can imply brusqueness / curtness. It can sound like the answering party would rather not be answering this and could you stop wasting their time already? Or it can imply disrespect for the persona being responded to more generally.

I don't think this anywhere near universal, especially in technical communities, but it's not a rare perception.

One liners also are prone to leaving a thing much less fully addressed, a partial answer that doesn't really leave all readers clear on what was meant or that the reader really understands the reponse. Consider:

"I found this behavior, and it's a bit strange. Is it intended?"
"Yes."

One line responses can feel a bit like this, seemingly intentionally less than helpful.

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Hopefully the above is informative about the popularity of these choices, and not annoying.