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PaperclipPerfector  6mo ago (text post)   3062 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 29, 2024

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anyone else annoyed by posts that start with some unrelated story like "i was cooking dinner when blah blah", its like reading cooking recipes online

i feel like our esteem for effort posting is why people pad their posts so much, to try to fit in when they dont actually have that much to say

I've always thought that a lot of rat adjacent people cannot really differentiate between actually good posts and posts that are just overly long, Scott being a notable example of that group.

I agree but brute length is an effective low pass filter. But once you’ve applied that filter, it’s not good.

Scott’s length issues are worse than just superfluous. He’s clearly reached a point of epistemic growth where instead of exploring ideas in his long posts, he’s laundering conclusions

If by effective low pass filter you mean a filter that makes me ctrl-w almost immediately, you're right. Such posts are the ratsphere textual equivalent of youtube videos where you have to watch half an hour of video to get two minutes of actual information.

No I mean effective as in it filters out the very worst of your Reddit low value poster. That doesn’t mean I think it’s good. Just that it is effective in at least that.

Not especially. I appreciate when our forum members provide these humanizing elements; especially since we have a core of users that has been stable for a long time, it makes me feel like I know them a little bit as people, instead of just as collections of culture war viewpoints.

The recipe thing is a unique meme related to SEO, but for some reason it’s apparently impossible for search engines to solve without creating an exploit so everyone has to play the game.

There needs to be a Wikipedia for recipes.

We’re so close yet so far.

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