...and here is the “community curating” right now. If the article (or blog post, if you will) was successfully communicating its point, these comments would not be taking place. It is a useful article as is, but fewer unrelated personal life details would help keep it off of people’s tl;dr list.
I think of it like an inventor drawing a new device on a napkin—would his friend at the table be justified using that napkin to mop up his spilled pasta sauce? After all, it is just a napkin, and that’s what napkins are for.
The blog format is the napkin, and the articles are the drawings. Now that the drawings are on it, it’s no longer just a napkin.
...and here is the “community curating” right now. If the article (or blog post, if you will) was successfully communicating its point, these comments would not be taking place. It is a useful article as is, but fewer unrelated personal life details would help keep it off of people’s tl;dr list.
I think of it like an inventor drawing a new device on a napkin—would his friend at the table be justified using that napkin to mop up his spilled pasta sauce? After all, it is just a napkin, and that’s what napkins are for. The blog format is the napkin, and the articles are the drawings. Now that the drawings are on it, it’s no longer just a napkin.