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#2When I first learnt to program the thing that I really enjoyed was learning to make a terminal app that took in the users input and used it as a conditional.
I’d make all these little toy apps where my family had to type in the right word to continue. Eg “Who is the leader of the autobots?” => “Well done. Transform and roll out!!”
It strikes me we could encourage better discourse with one word locked comments that the writer of the post draws from the article.
“New research and on the impact of race on tenure”
Per the article, what % of tenured professors identify as people of color in 2019?
What do you think of something like this?
Micro quiz questions, one up on ‘are you human’ to ‘prove you read one key thing’
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#3When I first learnt to program the thing that I really enjoyed was learning to make a terminal app that took in the users input and used it as a conditional. I’d make all these little toy apps where my family had to type in the right word to continue. Eg “Who is the leader of the autobots?” => “Well done. Transform and roll out!!” It strikes me we could encourage better discourse with one word locked comments that th…
It’s a reasonable suggestion, but I would predict comment participation to plunge. Maybe that’s just fine?
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#4When I first learnt to program the thing that I really enjoyed was learning to make a terminal app that took in the users input and used it as a conditional. I’d make all these little toy apps where my family had to type in the right word to continue. Eg “Who is the leader of the autobots?” => “Well done. Transform and roll out!!” It strikes me we could encourage better discourse with one word locked comments that th…
It’s a reasonable suggestion, but I would predict comment participation to plunge. Maybe that’s just fine?
Yeah, you’d get an increase in quality at a loss of quantity. As you suggest, that may be the key to the discourse we’re all looking for.
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#5When I first learnt to program the thing that I really enjoyed was learning to make a terminal app that took in the users input and used it as a conditional. I’d make all these little toy apps where my family had to type in the right word to continue. Eg “Who is the leader of the autobots?” => “Well done. Transform and roll out!!” It strikes me we could encourage better discourse with one word locked comments that th…
It’s a reasonable suggestion, but I would predict comment participation to plunge. Maybe that’s just fine?
I agree. It does sound like a valuable process. However, now we've increased the burden of work on the author. It is not only the author's job to conduct research, validate and share learnings; but also their job to make sure to keep noisy commenters away.
At the limit, this could lead to knowledge getting concentrated to small groups of people? :shrug:
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#6> Rule of thumb: the more steps you get away from the primary source the more corrupted everything gets. The article is good. The press release is bad. The tweet about the press release is worse. The tweets dunking on the tweet about the press release are terrible. Each one loses more of the critical context we need to actually understand what’s going on. Only the paper itself is a primary source. If you want to know what the paper’s about, you gotta read the paper!
And what about this article, which is about the tweets dunking on the tweet about the press release?
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#7I read your rant, so I'll comment on that.
It is generally good practice to put your name or pseudonym on things that you write. I am assuming your nane is Wayne.
While I do agree with most of your points, your article reads more like a soccer mom scolding a teenage referee for not calling that obvious foul on her star child.
Twitter trolls do suck, I just think you have taken this particular incident far to personal.
So how about adding another caveat and fill us in on how you are realted to one or all of the three authors?
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s a reasonable suggestion, but I would predict comment participation to plunge. Maybe that’s just fine?
Yeah, you’d get an increase in quality at a loss of quantity. As you suggest, that may be the key to the discourse we’re all looking for.
You'd get an increase in target-specific informed commentary at the loss of the hallway discussion.
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#9When I first learnt to program the thing that I really enjoyed was learning to make a terminal app that took in the users input and used it as a conditional. I’d make all these little toy apps where my family had to type in the right word to continue. Eg “Who is the leader of the autobots?” => “Well done. Transform and roll out!!” It strikes me we could encourage better discourse with one word locked comments that th…
It’s a reasonable suggestion, but I would predict comment participation to plunge. Maybe that’s just fine?
I like the idea, Im not sure how you could implement it on Twitter though.
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#10When I first learnt to program the thing that I really enjoyed was learning to make a terminal app that took in the users input and used it as a conditional. I’d make all these little toy apps where my family had to type in the right word to continue. Eg “Who is the leader of the autobots?” => “Well done. Transform and roll out!!” It strikes me we could encourage better discourse with one word locked comments that th…
Sounds like a job for GPT-3?