Comment on Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 13 hours agoI 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.
Just reading comments without the article? I have no issue with that at all, and do that myself.
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.
How do you, as the commenter yourself, know you aren’t getting something wrong without reading the article?
I feel like each post is an invitation to discuss the general topic
How do you know what the general topic is without reading the article?
If you feel like that is disrespectful, I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t think it is that disrespectful.
Maybe disrespectful is too strong a term. Let me amend that; I lose respect for the poster when they’re asking a question that is answered in the article. I sometimes write off engaging with them further in that thread because they’re clearly not even doing the most basic of tasks to be a part of the conversation.
But plenty of interesting conversations can happen in the comments (like this one) that have almost nothing whatever to do with the article!
I’ll do this too on occasionally, if I can clearly tell we’re not discussion the article topic, but its a gamble on my part and if someone smacks me down because it is article topical, I fully own that and apologize knowing its my fault.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
I try not to comment on what I don’t know about, so I might write a general comment about the wider topic (known from the headline and picture) or respond to someone else about a peripheral point, or make a joke based on word associations.
Once in a while I might get something wrong but hopefully not more often than normal.
Sometimes I’ll comment first, and then read the article later if the article’s contents become germaine to the discussion.
That’s totally fair to ignore low effort comments! And I do get how they can be annoying. For me I try to make my corner of the internet a little more fun, but I definitely scroll and comment for the dopamine and don’t read every article. But I do try to contribute to the discussion in a positive way.
I think I’ll remember this conversation when I’m commenting in the future. ;)
Have a happy new year!
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. I appreciate it.
You too!