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The loss of context can be dangerous and misleading.
by Kinnard 10y ago
The loss of context can be dangerous and misleading.
- notyourwork 10y agoI am glad someone understands my concern with pasting a single quote from an article without context. Here it may be valuable, other articles perhaps not.
- hyperbovine 10y agoI'll be the judge of that.
- Kinnard 10y agoWithout the context?
- hyperbovine 10y agoIf the summary is truly eyebrow-raising then yes, I'd move the little pointer to the top of the screen and click the link. Whatever point you are trying to make here seems way overblown.
- notyourwork 10y agoThe reason I commented was the part he quoted could have been the title for the submission. It wasn't adding value to any discussion so I felt it wasn't needed. You and some others disagree with my point of view but judging by the amount of discussion on this post, I suspect majority agrees with me. And by that I mean pasting a quote without any additional context or comments isn't adding valuable discussion to hackernews threads. I come here for the discussion so the OP was off putting to me.