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Why something better? The title (of the article) should read "we close comments, write an email if you really need to". And being a Linux nerd who uses a lot o
by erikb 11y ago
Why something better? The title (of the article) should read "we close comments, write an email if you really need to".
And being a Linux nerd who uses a lot of "old tools" like vim, grep, etc. I still can't understand why people switch from any communication technology X to email nowadays. Email is slowly dying, no reason to jump on that train if you don't have a lot of fancy configs/setup/knowhow in that area already.
- ckozlowski 11y ago"Something better (for us)". I'm gonna take a stab at this and say that I think what they're banking on is that the added effort needed to compose an email (and the lack of a public audiance) is going to raise the barrier of entry and lower the potential payout to eliminate all of the "low-quality, impulse commenting" they felt they were getting flooded with. And that they're basically equating email to writing a letter in magazine days says a lot about the state and view people have of email, in line with your point.