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Hacker News would be immensely more valuable and useful to me if a poster such as abhi3 posted such a well-written summary on every story.
by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
Hacker News would be immensely more valuable and useful to me if a poster such as abhi3 posted such a well-written summary on every story.
- bobwaycott 10y agoAnd that would be fine—as an ad-free TL;DR, as so many other HN members offer on many long articles.
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- jsmthrowaway 10y agoI'm not sure I'd call that summary well-written or particularly valuable, but I also don't think that's the poster's fault. Journalism is fundamentally contextualizing information, and stripping the context back to information is like playing telephone. I say this all the time, and I'll say it again: you and I can both write a passable story relaying a world event, but contextualizing it and adding illustration around the event is what journalism is about. Distilling that back to a summary is the antipattern. Simply start with the information and don't add context, because stripping out that nuance can change the context of the story (and did, in this case, particularly in the "even smaller" summary-of-summary). Even beyond that, the summary is a bit error-prone, but again, not the poster's fault and probably due to English being a second language or rushing it. I'm less concerned about that.
- engi_nerd 10y agoI don't want summaries in the discussion. I want actual discussion.
- Dylan16807 10y agoA summary is not very big, and doesn't exclude other posts. If ten people posted summaries, you would have a problem, but let's not worry about something that isn't happening.