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Re:What Makes Us Happy? by akamaka on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @07:12PM (#606248)
I posted my comment as a helpful warning to HN readers. People come to this site because they value their time, and want to be picky about what they read. My personal preference is academic-style writing.

But there's a few simple things article writers can do to improve readability. -Summaries (explain what the reader can expect to get out of the article) -Sideboxes (highlight key passages or points from each paragraph) -Descriptive paragraph headings

This article had none of those, and I felt like it was just trying to keep me hooked so I'd keep clicking to get to the next page and find the good part.

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Re:What Makes Us Happy? by silentbicycle on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @09:01PM (#606335)
> But there's a few simple things article writers can do to improve readability. -Summaries (explain what the reader can expect to get out of the article) -Sideboxes (highlight key passages or points from each paragraph) -Descriptive paragraph headings

Dude, the magazine has a cover story about Spongebob. (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200906/spongebob) Perhaps you're being a tiny bit silly in expecting them to "highlight key passages or points from each paragraph" for you?

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Re:What Makes Us Happy? by akamaka on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @02:10AM (#606573)
Touché
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