I’m a newish user, but I think it was good for me to keep hyperlink-chasing early on. It helped keep my early use of this site primarily learning-oriented rather than interaction-oriented.
Sorry for the late reply; I wanted to provide a more detailed perspective but I didn’t ultimately have time to. In a nutshell:
It’s good to have quick expositions for people to get a gist of things. But I think people should be aware that getting a quick exposition does not mean they understand the concepts. We see this a lot in physics where brilliant physicists find ways to make complex concepts accessible. This is great for people with a little humility, but many suddenly think they can engage with the community of people who actually understand things at a deep level.
I would want people to be a little intimidated by the jargon before they reply to posts. Each word tends to encode a complex concept, with possibly its own prerequisites. It’s usually good for people to read those more fundamental posts before they try to understand something that builds on them.
Anyways, this is all the opinion of someone very new to the site, and probably shouldn’t be weighed much.
I’m a newish user, but I think it was good for me to keep hyperlink-chasing early on. It helped keep my early use of this site primarily learning-oriented rather than interaction-oriented.
Does that mean “on the margin you’d rather more words be hyperlinks than glossary-hoverover-tooltips?”
(I think we can maintain Wholesome Hyperlink Foom by having links in the tooltips for exemplar posts)
Sorry for the late reply; I wanted to provide a more detailed perspective but I didn’t ultimately have time to. In a nutshell:
It’s good to have quick expositions for people to get a gist of things. But I think people should be aware that getting a quick exposition does not mean they understand the concepts. We see this a lot in physics where brilliant physicists find ways to make complex concepts accessible. This is great for people with a little humility, but many suddenly think they can engage with the community of people who actually understand things at a deep level.
I would want people to be a little intimidated by the jargon before they reply to posts. Each word tends to encode a complex concept, with possibly its own prerequisites. It’s usually good for people to read those more fundamental posts before they try to understand something that builds on them.
Anyways, this is all the opinion of someone very new to the site, and probably shouldn’t be weighed much.
Makes sense. I agree that concern is important though not quite sure how to approach it.