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> making it too simple to parse comments and social network posts, creates users that struggle to read more complex content That's a very strange argument - wo
by zasdffaa 4y ago
> making it too simple to parse comments and social network posts, creates users that struggle to read more complex content
That's a very strange argument - would you apply it to coding too? Perhaps remove comments so people are forced to interpret the code alone.
- antirez 4y agoIn this case it's like if there were centuries of already written code with huge value, all written without comments. You don't want to limit the ability of programmers to read it. However things are very different in their dynamics: reading text without well separated paragraphs is mostly a matter of habit: a simple skill to achieve, so discouraging this ability has very little return. Lack of comments make reading code a lot harder in certain cases, especially since many informations in the comments are non local. Also I'm not against proper formatting of posts. Just if it's not separated in paragraphs readers should so the small effort of doing it mentally, instead of complaining. Similarly I'm not against code comments (but strongly in favour). Btw I replied for the sake of argumenting but the two things are not comparable. Just so this test: splitting text written by others in paragraphs is a very easy task you can do just reading the text one time. Commiting code you don't yet understand is impossible: many informations you should write are not implicitly in the code. It's the contrary actually: most good comments are about things that are not evident.
- chitowneats 4y agoThank you for the paragraphs, sir. I still don't agree with your point fundamentally, but I appreciate your work immensely, and that is far more important.