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What "factual errors"? On what basis is the site "of similarly poor journalistic quality"? Why do you attack the author instead of arguing facts?


I was asked for my thoughts, not an argument intended to convince anyone, so that’s what I gave. :)

There are several other comments on this page that go into some of the factual errors.

I reviewed the titles and posting frequency of recent articles on the site, and it strongly pattern-matched in my brain as “content farm”, which would be negatively corrated with article quality. I predict the author’s intention is to post one article a day, and I predict that having such a posting frequency as a primary motivation is negatively correlated with quality.

I examined the author’s previous work in an attempt to understand his motivation behind writing and posting such an article; I’ve noticed that articles written out of a personal desire to communicate an idea tend to be better constructed or have a different “voice” than this article, so I wanted to understand where the author was coming from in the larger context. I only “attacked” because of the strength of the pattern-match I found.


So your comments appear to be more about medium as a content farm, and less so about the ideas within the article itself.




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