[epolanski]

> Realistically I assume they hope readers don’t notice the fine details.

The pool of people reading such articles while ignoring such details can't be big.

[Aurornis]

I disagree. Most people skim articles, not read them deeply.

On Hacker News I wonder if most people even opened the article at all most times.

[hadlock]

Slashdot coined RTFA in the 90s, what you're suggesting isn't a new concept by any measure

e: which itself is a modification of RTFM from usenet