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7. Social media (including HN) rewards lower-effort first posts over greater-effort informational ones. It takes significantly more time to sort though an arti
by thaumaturgy 6y ago
7. Social media (including HN) rewards lower-effort first posts over greater-effort informational ones.
It takes significantly more time to sort though an article like this one, figure out what it's talking about and why it's just been published, pick up corroborating and/or refuting sources and articles, and turn it all into a digestible comment. Someone else can post a hot take in 5 minutes that develops into a Sierpinski Comment Tree by the time something more measured shows up.
- stcredzero 6y agoIronically, elsewhere I'm also advocating that people go through dozens of studies and actually look at the numbers, then evaluate mainstream media coverage against that actual data.
- azinman2 6y agoAnd my point is few have the skills to be able to do well (and far, far fewer ever would).