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How did this go to the top vote? Brings nothing about the article just dubious personal long covid claims. HN please stop upvoting this nonsense. Already the

How did this go to the top vote? Brings nothing about the article just dubious personal long covid claims. HN please stop upvoting this nonsense. Already the second and third answers are HN quality. This is r/covid commentary. Does not belong here.

simonjgreen 3y ago
And yet the volume of replies, advice, and questions, against this suggests it's brought enjoyable conversation. On-topic is shades of grey.
- koheripbal 3y ago
  Popularity is not a proxy for quality. ...and just like Reddit, chasing popular posts and comments is a race to the bottom as it attracts an ever-more juvenile crowd of participants. Nuanced opinions and expert commentary are more boring but attract a more intellectually curious crowd - and that is what sets HN apart from reddit.
  - williamtrask 3y ago
    True in the limit yet democracy and free markets both imply popularity has something to it.
  - johnnyanmac 3y ago
    It isn't, but at the same time pop culture isn't automatically low quality either. I think blind call to actions based on gut feelings without understand WHY those gut feelings exist are exactly the kinds of things we should discourage here. I use the collorary for evaluating stuff like this. I care less about a high polished acedemic answer than I do about the resulting discussion not diving into a dumpster afterwrds. For here, I don't see a de-evolution into COVID denailism and anti-vaxxers or even random anecdotes of an off the hinge relative who died and the OP has to be like "I told him but he wouldn't listen", like I would on reddit. I see interesting discussion on a topic that is still a very hotly researched topic even in academia. Ways to potentially get checked or self help to mitigate effects. No one is an expert on "long COVID" yet, so it's interesting to see experiences (and IMO, see how they age as we learn more about such phenomenon).
CodeSgt 3y ago
What makes you the arbiter of discussion? The article is about cognitive decline, this is an anecdote about personal cognitive decline that they believe happened to be caused by covid. If you think every comment with a personal anecdote tangentially related to the article is “nonsense” and “r/x” material then you must be constantly frustrated by nearly every HN comments section of sufficient length.

simonjgreen 3y ago

And yet the volume of replies, advice, and questions, against this suggests it's brought enjoyable conversation. On-topic is shades of grey.

koheripbal 3y ago
Popularity is not a proxy for quality. ...and just like Reddit, chasing popular posts and comments is a race to the bottom as it attracts an ever-more juvenile crowd of participants. Nuanced opinions and expert commentary are more boring but attract a more intellectually curious crowd - and that is what sets HN apart from reddit.
- williamtrask 3y ago
  True in the limit yet democracy and free markets both imply popularity has something to it.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago
  It isn't, but at the same time pop culture isn't automatically low quality either. I think blind call to actions based on gut feelings without understand WHY those gut feelings exist are exactly the kinds of things we should discourage here. I use the collorary for evaluating stuff like this. I care less about a high polished acedemic answer than I do about the resulting discussion not diving into a dumpster afterwrds. For here, I don't see a de-evolution into COVID denailism and anti-vaxxers or even random anecdotes of an off the hinge relative who died and the OP has to be like "I told him but he wouldn't listen", like I would on reddit. I see interesting discussion on a topic that is still a very hotly researched topic even in academia. Ways to potentially get checked or self help to mitigate effects. No one is an expert on "long COVID" yet, so it's interesting to see experiences (and IMO, see how they age as we learn more about such phenomenon).

CodeSgt 3y ago

What makes you the arbiter of discussion? The article is about cognitive decline, this is an anecdote about personal cognitive decline that they believe happened to be caused by covid. If you think every comment with a personal anecdote tangentially related to the article is “nonsense” and “r/x” material then you must be constantly frustrated by nearly every HN comments section of sufficient length.