The Costs of Requiring Accounts

Re:The Costs of Requiring Accounts by cyberpunkdyst on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @02:34AM (#29172069)

> Surprisingly, the cost includes “lost” contributions from community members who had accounts already, but whose activity appears to have been catalyzed by the (often low quality) contributions from those without accounts.

The best way to get high-quality feedback is to say something stupid and have the expert correct you.

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Re:The Costs of Requiring Accounts by afarrell on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:49AM (#29172509)

1. That feedback is not really as high quality as asking an insightful question.

2. Doing this burns trust, especially if done deliberately.

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Re:The Costs of Requiring Accounts by RNCTX on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:05AM (#29172598)

Depends on your audience.

I can point to a handful of low-effort journos whose whole schtick is asking dumb questions on Twitter so that the would-be know-it-alls can post "well, actually" to them in the replies.

By virtue of the engagement numbers they clearly love it, and come back for more slop every day.

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Re:The Costs of Requiring Accounts by cyberpunkdyst on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:34AM (#29172810)

#1 Requires some knowledge to do, which can be hard. I do agree that #2 is very true and indeed what I mean by bein stupid is ”exposing your own stupidity/lack of knowledge” rather than playing stupid.

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