I make the suggestion because precisely because we will definitely lose that war.
I don’t think that is in any ways certain. There are PLENTY of high quality indexable discussion sites on the web as counter examples (HN, Reddit).
Even if it were, we should not go from “we will lose this war” to “we should behave now as if the war has already been lost”.
Reddit/HN seem like examples of extreme success, we should probably also not behave as if we will definitely enjoy extreme success.
I make the suggestion because precisely because we will definitely lose that war.
I don’t think that is in any ways certain. There are PLENTY of high quality indexable discussion sites on the web as counter examples (HN, Reddit).
Even if it were, we should not go from “we will lose this war” to “we should behave now as if the war has already been lost”.
Reddit/HN seem like examples of extreme success, we should probably also not behave as if we will definitely enjoy extreme success.