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by brudgers
1728 days ago
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2nd question: do you read the original link before or after the comments? This thread shows that "reading the original link" has more nuance than rolls easily off the keyboard. There's nuance. How far does due diligence require wading into the swamp of a Twitter link? How many bullet items of Github Awesome List must be read? Or is scrolling down enough? Must I inspect the source of a linked repository? Or there's not nuance if comments are a thing in themselves. Like any box on the internet, most of the text typed in is mostly unrelated to the article. The article or just the headline trips the floodgate and what someone was inclined to say yesterday gets said today. The thinnest excuses to type are enough to start typing. Case in point. |
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Yes, and that's how a forum ostensibly full of intelligent, creative people who want to satisfy their intellectual curiosity ends up with so many garbage threads wallowing in shallow mediocrity and bullshit.
But at the very least if you're going to attempt to comment on the TFA, you should be willing to put in the minimal effort to RTFA. I don't think that is an undue burden. There's nothing more frustrating than seeing an interesting article go completely ignored because everyone just riffs on the title and goes off on some political tangent or rant about the site's layout or something.