How is it not a challenge? When I google ‘challenge’ the first result is “a call to take part in a contest or competition.” In this case it’s not exactly competitive, but it is a call to take part in something that’s not trivially easy to accomplish (i.e. somewhat challenging).
If a youtube channel would say “I challenege you to comment this video” that woudl be comparble challenge level.
While it can be techically correct there is a trend going on which could be a ask or recommendation, or anything other is stated as a challenge instead.
If I do this ask it is not like I win or that I feel I have achieved something. It is not a big thing but for whoever is concerned about semantics inflation this is how it looks like.
I disagree with your first sentence. Commenting on a single video is pretty trivially easy; committing to comment on every frontpage post whether you feel like it or not (or to sit down for an hour and actually try to generate fifty ideas) is definitely not comparably trivial. When you complete a babble challenge, do you seriously not feel like you’ve achieved something?
I did indeed missidentified what my thought was. It compares in my brain with a youtube video trying to trick me to engage, it is a parasitic rider meme.
It also feels exploitative in that feedback getter gets as benefit and I suffer inconvenience. You are right in that a babble challenge gives a sense of accomplishment. Here there is a sense of nebolousness that I predict signifcantly interferes with that process. Eating a spoon full of cinnamon or sugar or water or anything specific is not the cinnamon challenge.
Inspired by the post I gave signal to the direction of it. The significance of the feedback or did it succeed or not is not apparent at all to me. And it resulted in something that feels like arguing, being defensive about all the things the input isn’t, an emotional net negative. This feels like it doesn’t need to be so, but the reflex to shirk from commenting correctly projects that this is the expectation.
The title contributes to a bad trend of calling things that are not challenges challenges.
How is it not a challenge? When I google ‘challenge’ the first result is “a call to take part in a contest or competition.” In this case it’s not exactly competitive, but it is a call to take part in something that’s not trivially easy to accomplish (i.e. somewhat challenging).
If a youtube channel would say “I challenege you to comment this video” that woudl be comparble challenge level.
While it can be techically correct there is a trend going on which could be a ask or recommendation, or anything other is stated as a challenge instead.
If I do this ask it is not like I win or that I feel I have achieved something. It is not a big thing but for whoever is concerned about semantics inflation this is how it looks like.
I disagree with your first sentence. Commenting on a single video is pretty trivially easy; committing to comment on every frontpage post whether you feel like it or not (or to sit down for an hour and actually try to generate fifty ideas) is definitely not comparably trivial. When you complete a babble challenge, do you seriously not feel like you’ve achieved something?
I did indeed missidentified what my thought was. It compares in my brain with a youtube video trying to trick me to engage, it is a parasitic rider meme.
It also feels exploitative in that feedback getter gets as benefit and I suffer inconvenience. You are right in that a babble challenge gives a sense of accomplishment. Here there is a sense of nebolousness that I predict signifcantly interferes with that process. Eating a spoon full of cinnamon or sugar or water or anything specific is not the cinnamon challenge.
Inspired by the post I gave signal to the direction of it. The significance of the feedback or did it succeed or not is not apparent at all to me. And it resulted in something that feels like arguing, being defensive about all the things the input isn’t, an emotional net negative. This feels like it doesn’t need to be so, but the reflex to shirk from commenting correctly projects that this is the expectation.