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.
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.