We don't want lazy cross posting. I think it is good practice to write at least one paragraph commenting or asking a question. Otherwise why should I care about the link that you posted. It is just lazy and will get quickly downvoted.
>>3407 >why should I care about the link >it is just lazy I very much disagree. There's plenty of information content in the image, title, and tags to figure out if I want to follow a link. YouTube agrees, my Signal chats agree, and Hacker News does too (without requiring even the image or tags). I think it's bad culture to deprioritize links, and this arbitrary one paragraph semi-requirement seems more like assigning homework than doing anything provably valuable.
We don't want lazy cross posting, sure, but great links/titles/images imply a chain of searching and reasoning that is far from lazy. Such links should be upvoted, discussed, and stick around on the site, just as bad links should be downvoted, not discussed, and disappear. Many of the best people I know don't have time to sit around and carefully concoct an OP screed every time they want to share a link, so for me the presence of a screed is generally evidence of midwittery.
>>3408 I am also commenting based on my observation. Links that have been posted haven't really stuck around or generated much discussion. The most fruitful ones were accompanied with an observation or some kind of half fleshed idea. I'm not talking about doing a book report either. That would be silly.
>Many of the best people I know don't have time to sit around and carefully concoct an OP screed every time they want to share a link, so for me the presence of a screed is generally evidence of midwittery.
Hard disagree, it doesn't take that much time and a good comment shows A the person probably actually read whatever they're sharing and B let's other users better decide if it's worth their time reading. Maybe a good link doesn't look appealing at first glance just as is.
I like links. I think we should post more links and lean on our usual mechanisms to curate them. Low value low effort links will get ignored or hidden, but high signal quality links are welcome as long as the title gives us some reason to care. Hacker News and such show that there is a large appetite for a stream of high quality links without much extra commentary, so I think we should lean into that and make it a big part of how we do things here. The "link roundup" is a crucial missing piece of social infrastructure since the old blogs stopped doing it and Elon banned links on twitter.
