|
|
|
|
|
|
by derekbreden
2403 days ago
|
|
|
The replies I've seen elsewhere here seem well thought out, and in almost all cases take consideration of the contents of the article into their responses, even if not intentionally. I like what this article says, and would like to support the promotion of it's content without adding further confounding additional language. Should I have upvoted the article and said nothing? P.P.S. This comment could be posted on most things I see on HN without further editing, and would convey what I feel about them. |
|
|
It depends on who your target audience is: yourself, strangers, coworkers, or friends?
If you want others to follow this advice, do those same people use HN? If not, what approach will help them see this?
Do you want to save it, and your thoughts on the article for later review? I do this publicly to wrap my head around the problem so I can try to get others to pick apart my mistakes (though perhaps to not great effect due to echo chambers).
To your specific post for this thread: does the article pose a question or an answer? I believing that is trying to answer a question.
To the boring meta part: It's my common approach to upvote without replying (sometimes I write the post add discard it). I'm not 100% clear on the HN culture and focus my replies to further the discussion (this being a meta post feels weird).
Both comments, and upvotes keep a that "alive", having read a few articles due to the sheer number of responses, I believe higher vested effort increases likelihood of others investing time (this is true but only of posts, but work in general).
Onto other articles: I like discussing the topics with data behind them. IBMs Mac rollout is interesting, but I'm wondering (given the source) if it's a PR piece.
To the target audience: It depends on if it's me as a recipient for practicing or me as a vehicle for spreading more humility when working with others (strangers on the internet).
In this case: I'm going to try to remember and reference this article. I don't want to share it yet as I haven't practiced it. (with this post being more a response to your question than the article)
Perhaps the best way to promote this post is living it with intent and sharing it when others ask how you deal with the problem (hopefully doing so well), thus directly answering your question: Upvote and thank you for posting so I could think about this more :)