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What soatok is doing is basically similar to what many other blogs have been doing throwing random images/memes in the text. (Also wouldn't call the furry part
by forgotpwd16 3y ago
What soatok is doing is basically similar to what many other blogs have been doing throwing random images/memes in the text. (Also wouldn't call the furry part any popular.) At least Xe's format has some logic[0] for its introduction. Albeit usage has been less of Socratic dialogue* and more like sidenotes**. Submitted article is an attempt to original concept but fails to it.
*Socratic dialogue is a discussion between a teacher and his students where both teacher and students ask questions rather teacher be a sage.
**Difference is those sidenotes appear in the main text and have highlighting making them standout.
[0]: https://xeiaso.net/blog/how-mara-works-2020-09-30/ https://xeiaso.net/blog/how-mara-works-2020-09-30/
- xena 3y agoXe here. For what it's worth, I basically combined what Soatok does with the furry stickers and what fasterthanlime does with Cool Bear. This pseudonarrative style has a lot of promise for making things less gatekeepy in our industry and I can't see why encouraging people to fuck around with their formats in this way is a bad thing.
- forgotpwd16 3y agoFrom fasterthanlime's only checked at start of linked article and saw it included some useful info, such as article being old and required rust version, so thought they used tips to do some snarky comments and provide info not belonging to main text but simultaneously important. Reading to end can see they also employ some pseudonarrative (actually a nice name for this style). Anyway, fucking around with formats isn't only fine but also welcome as want to believe are comments regarding whether said formats succeed in making article more enjoyable to read or not. For me guess you can say kinda enjoy Mara, Cadey, and Numa but not really Aoi.