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placed randomly in a sentence at the very end vs. being the entire core of the message is a rather significant change IMHO.
by rando444 8y ago
placed randomly in a sentence at the very end vs. being the entire core of the message is a rather significant change IMHO.
- jkaplowitz 8y agoI agree. That's why I'm not calling for the submission to be killed, just changing the title to be more accurate. My suggested verb of "deemphasizes" is consistent with what you're saying.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> placed randomly in a sentence at the very end “Randomly”? The very end is where you put whatever you want to be the most important key summation and takeaway message of a document like this.
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoReading is hard, so people often don't make it that far down.
- jfoutz 8y agoThe old bury the lede technique. That’s widely regarded as being not so good.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> The old bury the lede technique The CoC is not a news article, and the dynamics are different there. And burying the lede is when you mislead by putting a key point that shifts, rather than summarizes, the understanding conveyed by rest of the article late in a news article.
- r00fus 8y agoResearch says it's more effective at the beginning or end [1] [2]. Could it be argued Google enhanced it's positioning by moving it to the end? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial-position_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial-position_effect [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak–end_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak–end_rule