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We can make up unrealistic scenarios all day long but I just don’t believe for a second that anyone is this inconvenienced by it.

The idea that you’re in desperate need to get information from 5 web pages as quickly as possible like you’re a contestant on The Amazing Race is ridiculous. This is the definition of dramatic.

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Do it 20 times in the search for one article, and encounter at least a 30% misconfiguration rate (inappropriately high challenge value), and it does begin to bear out. If you are looking for obscure or poorly managed data, it unfortunately does become an issue.

In the daily, if you spend time researching with plenty of dead ends, ot does bear out in lost time. Not by dollars, but nickles and dimes.

Again though “do it 20 times in the search for one article” seems unrealistic. I’m not sure I ever followed 20 links to search for anything.

I understand, but "I haven't done that" isn't the same as "that isn't done". I like to do digital archaeology for my interests, and obscure topics frequently lead me up and down link chains.

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