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These question-begging, click-bait something-is-something-other-than-you-think posts are something less entertaining than the poster thinks.
by _wire_ 1y ago
These question-begging, click-bait something-is-something-other-than-you-think posts are something less entertaining than the poster thinks.
- abnercoimbre 1y agoYup. Soon as I read: > I am going to focus on the putative political impacts of social media I closed the tab.
- IshKebab 1y agoYeah I closed it when I saw the size of the scroll bar. If you need 100k words to make your point write a book.
- stevage 1y agoHuh, I often have the reverse sentiment with a lot of books: this should have been a blog post. There's often a good intro which lays out the thesis, but each chapter is way too long, spelling out details that are obvious or superfluous.
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- greyadept 1y agoThe author could have made the same points without using words like “polemicizing”, “putative”, and “epistemic”.
- dwedge 1y agoAs soon as I saw that his article has an introduction and the first line of it mentions that he wrote a long essay (as though long == good) I closed it