When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old. Every file had a comment at the top with the date and the author’s name. You’d open a file and read through it, sometimes touching a feature no one had touched in a decade.
Everything felt very permanent, like
If you can’t be bothered to read - or even just skim - a linked post, then don’t bother to comment. You’re adding nothing to the discussion and making yourself look wilfully ignorant.
Communities require effort from participants to avoid devolving into slop, AI or otherwise. Relying on someone else’s summary is letting someone else do the thinking for you, and commenting without even reading a summary is even more thoughtless. The only real way to participate is to click the links you avoided, and that’s the way it should be; it’s the bare minimum level of effort required - the price of admission, if you will. If we want our presence to be a benefit to the community we’re all a part of, we need to educate ourselves on the topic we’re discussing, at least slightly.
It is 1 person spends 5 min vs dozens/hundreds of people spending a few seconds of a lot or damn posts, and often finding out they wasted their time because there was no summary.
You can give me as many dislikes as you want, it wont change this
I won’t argue any more than to implore you to get into the habit of spending time on what’s important. Humanity is apathetic and stupid enough without us being too lazy to even read a single un-summarized tweet.
As opposed to the high-value “didn’t read, commented anyways based on the vibes of the title of the post”, who clearly contribute massive value to the community
Good question, and even better answer:
Nobody has time or can be arses to click some links every 2 minutes
At least a summary should have been included
And it also said Twitter, and in my exeprience it doesnt let you read posts until you create an account and log in??
If you can’t be bothered to read - or even just skim - a linked post, then don’t bother to comment. You’re adding nothing to the discussion and making yourself look wilfully ignorant.
Like I said: people who dont post a summary on Lemmy dont add anything to the community.
You have almost 0 information on lemmy, its pretty much just “HERES THE LINK, CLICK ON IT”
Communities require effort from participants to avoid devolving into slop, AI or otherwise. Relying on someone else’s summary is letting someone else do the thinking for you, and commenting without even reading a summary is even more thoughtless. The only real way to participate is to click the links you avoided, and that’s the way it should be; it’s the bare minimum level of effort required - the price of admission, if you will. If we want our presence to be a benefit to the community we’re all a part of, we need to educate ourselves on the topic we’re discussing, at least slightly.
Well, I disagree.
Quality posts should have summaries.
It is 1 person spends 5 min vs dozens/hundreds of people spending a few seconds of a lot or damn posts, and often finding out they wasted their time because there was no summary.
You can give me as many dislikes as you want, it wont change this
I won’t argue any more than to implore you to get into the habit of spending time on what’s important. Humanity is apathetic and stupid enough without us being too lazy to even read a single un-summarized tweet.
(continuing my last reply)
For example this is MY ideal post type (obviously not yours):
https://fedinsfw.app/post/682538
Dont worry its not nsfw, its just the instance im on
Thee is no arguing, we obviously have different beliefes as to what ‘ideal posting’ looks like, to each their own :)
As opposed to the high-value “didn’t read, commented anyways based on the vibes of the title of the post”, who clearly contribute massive value to the community
None of the posts here have summaries - this community is for a bot reposting from the Hacker News RSS feed.
So not only do you not bother reading posts before commenting, you don’t even know what community you’re posting to?