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Comment by notyourwork | Hacker News Reader

Why did you quote the article and not add a comment? I read that in the article so adding it here doesn't add any value to the discussion.

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I appreciate somebody extracting the money quote. I don't even remotely have time to read everything posted here.

Same, I scan trough comments way more than I scan through articles.

So we might as well paste the articles in the comments section?

Thought it was useful to give the reason he was quitting, as indicated by the text.

Guess it didn't help here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A regurgitation of what I read in the article is supposed to be helpful? It appears from reading the rest of the comments more than I come to discuss not just re-read what we already read in an article.

I guess if we throw a cute face in its supposed to be innocently acceptable too right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The loss of context can be dangerous and misleading.

I am glad someone understands my concern with pasting a single quote from an article without context. Here it may be valuable, other articles perhaps not.

I'll be the judge of that.

Without the context?

If the summary is truly eyebrow-raising then yes, I'd move the little pointer to the top of the screen and click the link. Whatever point you are trying to make here seems way overblown.

The reason I commented was the part he quoted could have been the title for the submission. It wasn't adding value to any discussion so I felt it wasn't needed.

You and some others disagree with my point of view but judging by the amount of discussion on this post, I suspect majority agrees with me. And by that I mean pasting a quote without any additional context or comments isn't adding valuable discussion to hackernews threads. I come here for the discussion so the OP was off putting to me.

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