Comment by harvie
5 hours ago
This only offers me 19 languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Woodard The article claims that it has 335
5 hours ago
This only offers me 19 languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Woodard The article claims that it has 335
It’s a good idea to read whatever you’re commenting on
That is a most improper suggestion on this here orange website. It is established etiquette to _imagine what the content of the article might be_, based on the title, and then comment on that, preferably angrily. At _absolute most_ one can read the first paragraph.
No no, thats reddit. We shun this here. They embraced it long ago.
or at least, that's what i guess is written in the guidelines
And when called out on it reply that the comments are often more interesting than the article which is a) trivially true when you don't read the article and b) probably because bickering in comments is more emotionally satisfying and requires a shorter attention span than reading a rather long article (I'm not immune, seeing as I'm now bickering about the bickering).
Explained at the end of the article:
After a full month of coordinated, decentralised action, the number of articles about Mr. Woodard was reduced from 335 articles to 20. A full decade of dedicated self-promotion by an individual network has been undone in only a few weeks by our community.