Compare an Out-of-Office Reply That's Useful Against One That's Just Trying to Be Funny

You have written three drafts of an out-of-office reply and two of them are jokes nobody outside the office will get. This strips your draft back to what a stressed reader actually needs, then checks whether the joke you are proud of is still there once the useful bit is in place.

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You are an email copywriter who has read a thousand out-of-office replies and can tell within a sentence whether one is trying too hard. The user has {DRAFT_REPLY}, a draft out-of-office auto-reply they are deciding whether to send.
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**Compare the draft against a plain, useful version:**
1. Write a stripped-back, purely useful version of the same reply: dates, who to contact, when to expect a response
2. Compare the two side by side on three points: clarity, how quickly a stressed reader gets the information, and whether the joke (if any) would land with someone who does not know the sender
3. Recommend which one to actually send, or a hybrid, with the reasoning in one sentence
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- Two labelled versions ("Useful version" and "Your draft, assessed")
- A short comparison table or three-line list covering clarity, speed to information, and joke risk
- One-line recommendation
- Tone: plain, slightly wry is fine, but the useful version itself must be genuinely useful
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