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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7842474" data-attributes="member: 16814">To follow up on this, now that I have more time, I really didn't see your post as antagonistic at all.&nbsp; The rub is that linking to an article without stating why you think this article is important just pushes the expectation of work onto other readers.&nbsp; That you think it's neat is fine, but you should make the effort to say what you think is relevant and neat rather than expect others to make time to read the article and then guess what it may be you found neat.&nbsp; See the point?&nbsp; You've asked others to do work without knowing how that work would be useful.&nbsp; The offer to discuss the article later, after others have read it, isn't sufficient.If you post an article as support for something your saying, then you should say what you think supports you, otherwise a reader has to guess which arguments in the article you agree with and which you might not.&nbsp; If you don't specify, then a reader can assume you agree with everything in the article.&nbsp; This makes future discussion more difficult.Finally, this forum is a leisure activity.&nbsp; Posting an article without clear indication of how relevant/useful it might be is asking others to gamble their leisure time on reading the article.&nbsp; This can be mitigated somewhat by providing an average reading time, so people can make informed decisions, but really it's best if you take your time to say what about the article you found interesting so that others can make that choice to read based on their alignment with your interest.Just dropping an article and saying, &quot;read this, then we can discuss it&quot; is assigning homework.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 7842474, member: 16814"] To follow up on this, now that I have more time, I really didn't see your post as antagonistic at all. The rub is that linking to an article without stating why you think this article is important just pushes the expectation of work onto other readers. That you think it's neat is fine, but you should make the effort to say what you think is relevant and neat rather than expect others to make time to read the article and then guess what it may be you found neat. See the point? You've asked others to do work without knowing how that work would be useful. The offer to discuss the article later, after others have read it, isn't sufficient. If you post an article as support for something your saying, then you should say what you think supports you, otherwise a reader has to guess which arguments in the article you agree with and which you might not. If you don't specify, then a reader can assume you agree with everything in the article. This makes future discussion more difficult. Finally, this forum is a leisure activity. Posting an article without clear indication of how relevant/useful it might be is asking others to gamble their leisure time on reading the article. This can be mitigated somewhat by providing an average reading time, so people can make informed decisions, but really it's best if you take your time to say what about the article you found interesting so that others can make that choice to read based on their alignment with your interest. Just dropping an article and saying, "read this, then we can discuss it" is assigning homework. [/QUOTE]

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