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Cake day: September 4th, 2025

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  • I try not to comment on what I don’t know about, so I might write a general comment about the wider topic (known from the headline and picture) or respond to someone else about a peripheral point, or make a joke based on word associations.

    Once in a while I might get something wrong but hopefully not more often than normal.

    Sometimes I’ll comment first, and then read the article later if the article’s contents become germaine to the discussion.

    That’s totally fair to ignore low effort comments! And I do get how they can be annoying. For me I try to make my corner of the internet a little more fun, but I definitely scroll and comment for the dopamine and don’t read every article. But I do try to contribute to the discussion in a positive way.

    I think I’ll remember this conversation when I’m commenting in the future. ;)

    Have a happy new year!


  • I think we’ll have to agree to disagree. Often times if I see an interesting question in the comments, I am glad for it, because that was the insight I needed to want to read the article and answer it.

    I get what you’re saying about going over ground already answered in the article. For me that isn’t annoying unless the commenter is getting something wrong that is talked about in the article, and doubles down on it.

    But plenty of interesting conversations can happen in the comments (like this one) that have almost nothing whatever to do with the article! I feel like each post is an invitation to discuss the general topic, but I don’t consider reading the article to be an absolute prerequisite. If you feel like that is disrespectful, I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t think it is that disrespectful.