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"Verbosity" also encourages empathy. The piece does a good job relaying the lengths several players go through to achieve the sleep they want. It also gives a g
by scott_s 7y ago
"Verbosity" also encourages empathy. The piece does a good job relaying the lengths several players go through to achieve the sleep they want. It also gives a good overview of what their travel schedule actually is. Let's not pretend that a three sentence summary contains the same amount of information as a long-form article.
(And to counter the inevitable follow-up: yes, I know many people think there is too much human-interest, irrelevant personal information in such reporting. But there's still lots more relevant information.)
- mikelyons 7y agoVerbosity risks people never reading it at all.
- dmit 7y agoTheir loss.
- mikelyons 7y agoIf you awaken to the collapse of duality into unity, you see that its your loss too, its everyone's loss.
- mikelyons 7y agoDon't get me wrong, I don't think we need to oversimplify and dumb down content, that has massively polluted the information ecology. I am just pointing out that most people wont take the time to read anything longer than a couple paragraphs in this particular context.
- dmit 7y agoI think we're basically in agreement that it's a great shame when important information is not reaching the audience it deserves because of how it's presented. It's a neat parallel to the other thread in this topic about how the overall product might be improved by reducing the number of games played in a season. It seems wild to me when people basically shoot themselves in the foot by going "tl;dr", but also if you're the author, it's up to you to present your message in a easily comprehensible form - nobody owes you their time and attention, it has to be earned. (FWIW, this site doesn't allow downvoting direct replies to one's posts, so it wasn't me who downvoted (nor flagged) your sibling comment.)
- scott_s 7y agoSummaries are fine. Just let's not pretend there's no loss of information.
- mikelyons 7y agoYes I actually agree with verbosity, 10 second soundbytes have massively polluted the information ecology. I was just arguing against myself :|