this story is based on a viral screenshot of a single question on Stack Exchange that had two replies and seemed to have been a joke but huhpic.twitter.com/948a9q9DSq
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Anyway, this is a bad idea for lots and lots of reasons! It's a waste of time, for the people creating the files and the people reading them. What value are you adding here? The minimal search traffic they bring in is a losing gamehttps://twitter.com/mccanner/status/1155840562286780417 …
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And to make one point very clear: I will die on the "this cool thing on the internet is worth our time!" hill. It IS often worth our time! It's what I do for a living! But man, you gotta be smart about it. Churn without context is not smart.
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There are two ways to have handled this petition: 1) a file that says a year-old petition has XX signers + a wiki history of halloween, which is what nearly every site did. or 2) explain WHY you're suddenly seeing a year-old petition blanket your feed.https://twitter.com/mccanner/status/1155839926514196480 …
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which one do you think actually helps readers more?
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definitely agree with this, but the actual article is a joke-piece run by the guardian (called pass-notes), which is just a fun little column in the physical paper but doesn't seem to translate well when its online (which i also think is v interesting)https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/shortcuts/2019/jul/29/in-the-dark-why-the-stranger-things-red-room-is-confusing-younger-fans?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3dsamwvCOtR7pgMFQjqtq0-u3tbU7OiQ4dgG5kklRS28fDmiqJg8Ewi_M#Echobox=1564404837 …
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