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285 sats \ 7 replies \ @And1 17 Aug 2023 \ on: Posting links, but not responding to comments? meta
I agree, but some people who post links are not necessarily the authors and often have no idea about the subject.
So I think it's better if they don't reply instead of spreading nonsense, or even better if they start learning about these topics instead of sharing a lot of (cheap) links.
If someone shared something because they wanted to learn more from the community, wiring so in a comment seems rather obvious. Ignoring comments, on the other hand, seems rude.
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Absolutely. If you post a link you should post a comment with your thoughts on the article. (Guilty of not doing so sometimes, but I'll endeavour to do so going forward). And then ask the community what their thoughts are or if anyone can elaborate on a concept you didn't understand.
Perhaps our current format of posting links has some room for improvement. Currently it's title, link. Click post.
Perhaps we should move to a title, link, discussion box, click post. Format @k00b what do you think? Perhaps adding a 3rd field to fill in would stop link spamming and force (at least the poster) to open discussion. Whether they get discussion is then up to the community.
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I guess it has to do with this site essentially copying the format of hacker news, a website I've never used.
I encourage the change though because this isn't hacker news.
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If you've spent time on nostr or r/cc you'll find a lot of users just link spam hoping for zaps/upvotes for moons or whatever. It is lazy honestly. But I don't think it's a problem unique to SN. I think it's a problem with rewarding people for posting on social media. Cast your net wide enough, you'll catch fish.
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that's why i hope this site would take a note from reddit, and allow us to make our own substackz. :)
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I agree, a short bulletpoint list of key takeaways would be nice at least, if not just a common courtesy, especially if the OP is not the author of the link. I think the best approach is to just ignore these posts though and let the market weed them out
I still love the idea about setting your own custom fee amounts too
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I think it's particularly useful when someone posts a link to a technical article and non-technicians would like to understand better.
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