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What's the point of posting entire book fragments here?
by microtonal 10mo ago
What's the point of posting entire book fragments here?
- networkadmin 10mo agoSo that lazy people who form their worldview via a Quick Google Search, Wikipedia articles, and/or "news media" can actually have a chance to learn something real about the time they are living in. It's like a dozen paragraphs, forming one complete argument. Is this too much material to take in all at once, in this brave new TLDR tomorrow?
- gilleain 10mo agoNeat in theory, but in practice ineffective. Those who might read multiple large exerpts from a book would actually seek out the source. Do as you wish, however I doubt this will have the effect you want here.
- wgjordan 10mo ago> It's like a dozen paragraphs, forming one complete argument. Is this too much material to take in all at once, in this brave new TLDR tomorrow? The issue is not that you cited a dozen-paragraph argument, it's that you inlined all the text directly into a series of comments instead of a link to the text on a separate page. It visually overwhelms the discussion thread and is disruptive to the broader discussion, which is not strictly against guidelines but generally seen as non-normative behavior.
- pgruenbacher 10mo agoi enjoyed reading it thank you
- kelnos 10mo agoI don't come here to read lengthy quotes from random authors. I come here for discussion and interesting viewpoints from our community. Posting a lengthy quote is low-effort; more valuable would be to write up your take on it in your own words, and, if you want, link to the original source material that you would have otherwise quoted.
- networkadmin 10mo ago[dead]