This is at least the third version of the post, and they have nothing in common except the target of the link. The original version included nothing but a descriptive link, but at least the link was sufficiently descriptive so I’d agree that it was superior to the current version.
I also thought so, but nothing but the descriptive link had already hit a critical mass of downvotes, so it seemed worth it to experiment further to see if I could quickly get a permutation that I got it back up into positive karma.
I suspected that people didn’t like the descriptive link (which was the first two sentences of the article), because the writing style of a mainstream media article is rather jolting coming from the style of prose generally practiced on Less Wrong.
I downvoted because I favor the norm that links sans independent content from the linker belong in the Open Thread. If it’s important enough, it’ll get linked from a relevant future post.
This is at least the third version of the post, and they have nothing in common except the target of the link. The original version included nothing but a descriptive link, but at least the link was sufficiently descriptive so I’d agree that it was superior to the current version.
I also thought so, but nothing but the descriptive link had already hit a critical mass of downvotes, so it seemed worth it to experiment further to see if I could quickly get a permutation that I got it back up into positive karma.
I suspected that people didn’t like the descriptive link (which was the first two sentences of the article), because the writing style of a mainstream media article is rather jolting coming from the style of prose generally practiced on Less Wrong.
I downvoted because I favor the norm that links sans independent content from the linker belong in the Open Thread. If it’s important enough, it’ll get linked from a relevant future post.