I think it’s pretty obvious I wasn’t trying to be helpful, I was trying to discourage the sort of perverse laziness necessary to post a comment like that without even trying to google it. I could have just downvoted and moved on.
It’s not necessarily laziness, and I saw no evidence of a lack of trying to google it. The “Jesus Camp” link was given with little context and was an arbitrary Youtube link. Thus, it could have been referring to any number of things called “Jesus Camp” at the time this article was posted, which may or may not be the same thing that now (or for future readers) turns up in a Google search results page.
Conceded. I honestly have very little confidence in my model of people who would go to the trouble of posting a comment advertising their ignorance rather than just, you know, googling it.
and I saw no evidence of a lack of trying to google it.
I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree, then.
The “Jesus Camp” link was given with little context
neurologically intact people with beliefs that have utterly destroyed their sanity (Scientologists or Jesus Camp).
Anyway, I’ll take the downvotes as a reminder that LW is more accommodating than me.
I acknowledge the legitimacy of demanding I google the phrase before requesting another link and will attempt to increase the frequency with which that’s part of my response to such an occasion, but maintain the general usefulness of pointing out a broken link in a post, especially one that’s part of a Sequence.
Here.
An unstable link is not a great fix for a broken link, and the level of indirection added by lmgtfy makes it even less helpful.
I think it’s pretty obvious I wasn’t trying to be helpful, I was trying to discourage the sort of perverse laziness necessary to post a comment like that without even trying to google it. I could have just downvoted and moved on.
Edit: Okay fine.
It’s not necessarily laziness, and I saw no evidence of a lack of trying to google it. The “Jesus Camp” link was given with little context and was an arbitrary Youtube link. Thus, it could have been referring to any number of things called “Jesus Camp” at the time this article was posted, which may or may not be the same thing that now (or for future readers) turns up in a Google search results page.
Conceded. I honestly have very little confidence in my model of people who would go to the trouble of posting a comment advertising their ignorance rather than just, you know, googling it.
I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree, then.
Anyway, I’ll take the downvotes as a reminder that LW is more accommodating than me.
I acknowledge the legitimacy of demanding I google the phrase before requesting another link and will attempt to increase the frequency with which that’s part of my response to such an occasion, but maintain the general usefulness of pointing out a broken link in a post, especially one that’s part of a Sequence.
I was being rather passive-aggressive, wasn’t I? I apologize.
I find it’s a generally useful policy, yes.
On this we agree.
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