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Blogging is far preferable to commenting in a public forum because I don't have to see it unless I visit. To use your own analogy: commenting on Reddit/Youtube
by teach 11y ago
Blogging is far preferable to commenting in a public forum because I don't have to see it unless I visit.
To use your own analogy: commenting on Reddit/Youtube/HN is like farting in public. Blogging is like farting in your own home.
- sklogic 11y agoThere is a significant nuance: blogs are most likely indexed by google. Comments are invisible. So blogs are generating much more noise, obstructing an access to information much more dramatically than even a 5000-strong comments thread could ever do.
- teach 11y agoComments are most certainly indexed by Google. They are not usually ranked highly. And crappy blogs are also indexed and not ranked very highly. Both generate comparable "noise", except that there are a lot more comments.
- sklogic 11y agoThen why, when I search for a solution to a specific problem (e.g., googling for an error message, etc.), I most likely land in some blog full of ramblings with no solution whatsoever? And often the real solution is hidden somewhere in comments on SE, never listed in any sane google query.