“Personally, I find them useful because it’s valuable to see what external critics are saying about EA. This helps me either a) learn from their critiques or b) rebut their critiques. Even if they are bad critiques and I don’t think it’s worth my time rebutting them, I think I should be aware of them because it’s valuable to understand how others perceive the movement I am connected to.”
This explains my reasons for linkposting exactly. Perhaps the forum designers could improve the rating concept of linkposts accordingly. It needs to be different from other posts. There needs to be a way for readers to be able to indicate, say:
(1) Thanks for posting, glad it was brought to my attention OR This is irrelevant to EA concerns, why are you posting here?
(2) Like/Don’t like—the actual content
I was/am not aware of any ‘quick takes’ section of the forum.
“Personally, I find them useful because it’s valuable to see what external critics are saying about EA. This helps me either a) learn from their critiques or b) rebut their critiques. Even if they are bad critiques and I don’t think it’s worth my time rebutting them, I think I should be aware of them because it’s valuable to understand how others perceive the movement I am connected to.”
This explains my reasons for linkposting exactly. Perhaps the forum designers could improve the rating concept of linkposts accordingly. It needs to be different from other posts. There needs to be a way for readers to be able to indicate, say:
(1) Thanks for posting, glad it was brought to my attention OR This is irrelevant to EA concerns, why are you posting here? (2) Like/Don’t like—the actual content
I was/am not aware of any ‘quick takes’ section of the forum.