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If you read the article you will see that the results and conclusion might be in line with what you expect. Academic papers don't necessarily follow Poe's Law i
by Legogris 8y ago
If you read the article you will see that the results and conclusion might be in line with what you expect. Academic papers don't necessarily follow Poe's Law in their titles ;)
- arkades 8y agoIt is bad form to criticize posters on HN for not reading the article they’re criticizing. Oddly, it seems to be less accepted than not reading the article one’s criticizing.
- vanderZwan 8y agoI don't know what gave you that impression, but it doesn't match my experience on HN at all. Discussions based on headlines alone tend to be accepted (especially if the poster mentions they haven't read the article), but "the article addresses your questions <here> and <here>" is usually the top reply.
- arkades 8y agoIn fairness, I tend to see two types of responses: One of the kind you mention - “the article actually says ...”, in which the respondent goes to the effort of basically summarizing the article OP didn’t bother to read. Those generally catch moderate upvotes. Then there’s the more blunt variety, along the lines of RTFM. Those catch solid downvotes. Frankly, I’d rather neither existed, and posts that clearly didn’t bother looking at anything but the headline were just flagged and deleted.
- andreareina 8y agoThere's a line between criticizing someone for not reading the article (or insinuating that they didn't read it, per the guidelines[1]) and stating that such-and-such claim is found in the article. Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Legogris 8y agoI know this and generally agree. In this case it's the number 2 upvoted comment so I thought it worth pointing out.