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The abstracts are often written by the people who wrote the paper, a tldr often isn't, this allows at best inaccuracies in the summation and at worst complete b
by noir_lord 10y ago
The abstracts are often written by the people who wrote the paper, a tldr often isn't, this allows at best inaccuracies in the summation and at worst complete bias which then results in a big argument completely unrelated to the source material.
Frankly if you aren't willing to read the content you simply shouldn't comment on it until you have.
- corecoder 10y agoHN is not just for commenting, it is also for reading other people's submissions and comments. So, granted, it's better not to write comments without reading the article first, but why should that mean that people who have read the article should not write a summary?
- arjie 10y agoNone of this is relevant. Summaries are not substitutes for the content. They're to indicate if the content is relevant or not. Frankly, if you aren't capable of summarizing the content, any other comment you'd make is probably rubbish.