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.
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
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.
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?