I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect very much from the author, and so I lean away from viewing the lack of citations as something that (meaningfully) weakens the post.
I feel like our expectations of the author and the circumstances of the authorship can inform our opinions of how “blameworthy” the author is for not improving the post in some way, but shouldn’t really have any relevance to what changes would be improvements if they occurred. The latter seems to me to purely be a claim about the text of the post, not a claim about the process that wrote it.
Hm. I hear ya. Good point. I’m not sure whether I agree or disagree.
I’m trying to think of an analogy and came up with the following. Imagine you go to McDonalds with some friends and someone comments that their burger would be better if they used prime ribeye for their ground beef.
I guess it’s technically true, but something also feels off about it to me that I’m having trouble putting my finger on. Maybe it’s that it feels like a moot point to discuss things that would make something better that are also impractical to implement.
I feel like our expectations of the author and the circumstances of the authorship can inform our opinions of how “blameworthy” the author is for not improving the post in some way, but shouldn’t really have any relevance to what changes would be improvements if they occurred. The latter seems to me to purely be a claim about the text of the post, not a claim about the process that wrote it.
Hm. I hear ya. Good point. I’m not sure whether I agree or disagree.
I’m trying to think of an analogy and came up with the following. Imagine you go to McDonalds with some friends and someone comments that their burger would be better if they used prime ribeye for their ground beef.
I guess it’s technically true, but something also feels off about it to me that I’m having trouble putting my finger on. Maybe it’s that it feels like a moot point to discuss things that would make something better that are also impractical to implement.