Re:A Learning Advance in Artificial Intelligence Rivals Huma...
by eric_h on Friday December 11, 2015 @12:34PM
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> Personally, (and as a card-carrying crochety old man) I don't follow those links on principle. I'm carrying on my own little "boycott of one".
Me too, so that makes it at least a boycott of two. I'm not even a crotchety old man yet (early 30s), but it seems to be coming on fast ;)
Re:A Learning Advance in Artificial Intelligence Rivals Huma...
by SilasX on Saturday December 12, 2015 @01:20AM
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This x1000. Biggest pet peeve of mine is people's unwillingness to give a valid, time saving summary. Seriously, if you just ready it and your mind has absorbed it, what the heck is so hard about giving a short recap based on that summary?
Btw, TvTropes gives the kind of summary you describe under the "laconic" button, and it's a godsend.
"this jaw dropping thing that happened will make you weep for humanity" `baby drops ice cream, dog eats it`
"Carrie Fisher destroys good morning America" `she throws out a few lighthearted quips, has a one-liner about jabba`
I think it really becomes effective on video content with extreme linkbait.
Personally, (and as a card-carrying crochety old man) I don't follow those links on principle. I'm carrying on my own little "boycott of one".
By instituting platform change though, to solve for linkbait inline (not requiring a page load to comments) would change the value proposition of headlines and I think it would be more likely to reward for quality content.
A TL;DR summary is not the same as "top comment" and TC is not always a TLDR ... One line, under the headline, crowd sourced and voted. I think it could fundamentally change behavior, and if the platform doing it was sufficiently large, the composition of the internet.