Back up your arguments plz: a rant about people not putting ludicrous amounts of effort into their shitpostshttps://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/back-up-your-arguments-plz/ …
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Replying to @hillelogram
I think you're giving them too much credit in a way. If the choices are "trying to produce peer-review worthy evidence" and "not that", as a developer I'll choose "not that". The reason is, "not that" will ship, and I can read it, and consider it...whereas
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Replying to @hyperpape @hillelogram
...if the choice is between "content and effort-free rants on medium" vs. "posts based on heuristic evidence", I'll take the later! Because both of those will get published, and the second is still better than nothing.
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Replying to @hyperpape @hillelogram
Not everyone can produce perfectly crafted posts, but maybe more people can try a bit.
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IMO, the problem is that, ceteris paribus, rants get more views than non-rants. Relative to other aggregators, HN is actually pretty good about burying rants b/c "downvotes" are weighted much more heavily than upvotes. Non-relatively, it still has a lot of rants, though :-(
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