Comment by epolanski
5 hours ago
> Realistically I assume they hope readers don’t notice the fine details.
The pool of people reading such articles while ignoring such details can't be big.
5 hours ago
> Realistically I assume they hope readers don’t notice the fine details.
The pool of people reading such articles while ignoring such details can't be big.
I disagree. Most people skim articles, not read them deeply.
On Hacker News I wonder if most people even opened the article at all most times.
Slashdot coined RTFA in the 90s, what you're suggesting isn't a new concept by any measure
e: which itself is a modification of RTFM from usenet