Comment by intended
6 days ago
This is all communication no?
If people do not share the same context, then they will come up with different interpretations of the same content.
In communities with more homogenous understanding of the context, people are able to get into the details more effectively.
Those communities tend to also be impervious to outsiders, or newbies, because the use of terms/jargon that speeds up conversation abound.
No, this goes beyond that. A well-written article or book doesn’t need to be padded with junk to cater to bad readers, or to preempt trolls, because they can’t scrawl all over it such that it disrupts others’ experience. You have to go to e.g. the Amazon reviews to find people complaining that an author didn’t address something that they very definitely did, or claimed something they certainly did not, that stuff doesn’t show up on the page in footnotes or turn into flame wars on the page where everyone sees it.