[krapp]

>The thinnest excuses to type are enough to start typing.

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.

[brudgers]

In which we make an implicit case that shallow mediocrity and bullshit is more a matter of will than anything else.

[krapp]

A matter of will to create, or overcome?

I've seen enough people defend not reading the articles on general principle to realize that they put effort into not putting in effort.