Comment on Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 22 hours agoI will not read every article.
Comment on Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 22 hours agoI will not read every article.
JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 22 hours ago
That’s ok - but why would you then want to discuss an article you don’t want to read on the internet?
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
I read the comments to find out if it is worth reading. Also much of the time, the comments are more interesting than the article, so I just have a discussion in the comments with the headline and other comments as the jumping off point.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I get where you’re going here and I do the same as far as reading, but before I post I make it a point to actually read the article. Otherwise I may be forming and asking questions clearly already addressed or are completely divorced from the actual topic because I lack the articles context.
I feel it is part of the mutual respect with other posters to not waste their time asking questions already answered (in the article) or derailing the conversation because I don’t know what conversation I’m in.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
I think we’ll have to agree to disagree. Often times if I see an interesting question in the comments, I am glad for it, because that was the insight I needed to want to read the article and answer it.
I get what you’re saying about going over ground already answered in the article. For me that isn’t annoying unless the commenter is getting something wrong that is talked about in the article, and doubles down on it.
But plenty of interesting conversations can happen in the comments (like this one) that have almost nothing whatever to do with the article! I feel like each post is an invitation to discuss the general topic, but I don’t consider reading the article to be an absolute prerequisite. If you feel like that is disrespectful, I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t think it is that disrespectful.