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I miss a time when people read articles before commenting on them. Just skimming the introduction could have told you that the title is not a reflection of an a
by 7777fps 7y ago
I miss a time when people read articles before commenting on them. Just skimming the introduction could have told you that the title is not a reflection of an argument forwarded by the article.
- overcast 7y agoWhat time was that? Humans have always taken shortcuts.
- LesserEvil665 7y agoSkimming is a good enough shortcut to take to not sound like a fool.
- coldtea 7y agoThe idea that "human society/culture/habbit was always the same in X aspect" is as ludicrous as "human society/culture/habbit is always changing in X aspect".
- vorotato 7y agoFor as long as any of us can remember, the average person has tried to avoid wasting their time on potentially fruitless pursuits with no joy in the journey.
- coldtea 7y agoShortcuts is not just "skip the useless parts", but also cheat, lose subtlety, lower quality (as in "take shortcuts"), and so on. In this case "read[ing] articles before commenting on them" is not "wasting their time on potentially fruitless pursuits with no joy in the journey", it's the very basic prerequisite for responding to an article. And yes, there was a time when this happened less. In the mobile and social era, people are skimming more, jumping around from text to text more, and do focused reading of articles and books less -- this has been studied and written about several times (e.g. here's a high level article from a book author on the subject: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-goog... ).
- freehunter 7y agoI miss the time when headlines could give you a rough approximation of the content of the article rather than just designed to catch clicks based on knee-jerk responses. A headline should be a one sentence summary of the article.