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Verbosity risks people never reading it at all.
by mikelyons 7y ago
Verbosity 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 :|