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Anyone else get a feeling that some tutorials are made for trolling purposes? Like, why write an article about the most basic stuff about a particular stack and call it a day? Why copy paste from the docs without adding any new information whatsoever?
Medium.com is the worst offender.

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  • 3
    the whole world is just stupid

    people don't take pride in things anymore, they just spew low effortly
  • 8
    because SEO.
  • 4
    When I first came across medium, they had decent content and I added them to my RSS feed. After a while, some content was behind a 'paywall' (they wanted you to create an account), then click-bait headlines, etc and authors I followed started dropping off. I can only guess why.

    M: "The article on C# multi-threading. Title is too boring. How about 'Trump is a poopy-head'? Our estimates show a 300% increase in traffic when someone trashes Trump"

    A: "That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Hard pass."

    M: "OK, how does 'Biden. Genius or a secret alien body snatcher?'."

    A: "I stand corrected. You raised the stupid bar two more notches. You just out-stupid CNN. Well done. Keep going, you'll pass Fox News."
  • 0
    I really like Troll Hunter. Like I want to get the stuff and start hunting trolls in Europe now. I mean, the USA has Squawsnatch, but she be hard to catch if you don't have big enough bait. I like to fish without bait. I prefer flies.
  • 3
    Also a lot of medium articles are obviously ChatGPT generated. They sucks. ChatGPT is good only for beatiful writing, it has no technical knowledge.
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    Some of these are

    * people dabbling with ai summaries
    * click farmers (not sure what they have to gain from doing it on someone else’s platform)
    * their job promotes outreach ”today - let’s write a techy blogpost about anything”
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    @daniel-wu I had the idea quora was generated way before chatGPT came along. I even clicked trough some profiles and it just didn't add up
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