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I don't like this article style. I've read halfway through it and the purported real reason is constantly advertised but never revealed. I've come to expect thi
by YeGoblynQueenne 1y ago
I don't like this article style. I've read halfway through it and the purported real reason is constantly advertised but never revealed. I've come to expect this from clickbait youtube videos that try to make you watch to the end for the one bit of information you're looking for, but to see this in an article that presumably is not monetised in the same way is just weird.
For the record, I would have gladly read the full article if it hadn't annoyed me so much with this attempt to make sure I read to the end, which, let's be fair, nobody is going to do unless they're a nerd with an insatiable curiosity and a manic compulsion to read every bit of text on the page; but then that's the audience this article targets anyway, so why make it annoying to read? Either you find the subject fascinating and you'll read the entire article anyway, or you don't and you won't get past the title.
- amelius 1y agoMaybe someone can write a browser extension that reads the article and answers its main question.
- smusamashah 1y agoI was very irritated by tease yet no reveal style of the article until mid, asked, asked LLM (Leo in brave) to summarise, then ctrl+f and read the actual point myself.
- Avicebron 1y agoFor the impatient goblins - " Vibrio pectenicida, a saltwater-loving bacterium that works its way into sea star fluids, as the likely “dominant pathogen responsible for sea star wasting disease.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02797-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02797-2
- nine_k 1y agoThanks from us, the impatient goblins who are spoiled by all these tasty abstracts when reading papers on arxiv. I see that human publications strive for engagement, not citations, so they try to suspend the answer on the longest string that fits on the page. Pictures are nice though!
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- YeGoblynQueenne 1y agoThank you for being kind and considerate of the little goblins :)