pedanterrific comments on Are Your Enemies Innately Evil? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 24 October 2011 08:09:59PM 3 points [-]

An unstable link is not a great fix for a broken link, and the level of indirection added by lmgtfy makes it even less helpful.

Comment author: pedanterrific 24 October 2011 08:14:26PM *  2 points [-]

I think it's pretty obvious I wasn't trying to be helpful, I was trying to discourage the sort of perverse laziness necessary to post a comment like that without even trying to google it. I could have just downvoted and moved on.

Edit: Okay fine.

Comment author: thomblake 24 October 2011 08:28:25PM 5 points [-]

It's not necessarily laziness, and I saw no evidence of a lack of trying to google it. The "Jesus Camp" link was given with little context and was an arbitrary Youtube link. Thus, it could have been referring to any number of things called "Jesus Camp" at the time this article was posted, which may or may not be the same thing that now (or for future readers) turns up in a Google search results page.

Comment author: momothefiddler 24 October 2011 10:11:00PM 4 points [-]

I acknowledge the legitimacy of demanding I google the phrase before requesting another link and will attempt to increase the frequency with which that's part of my response to such an occasion, but maintain the general usefulness of pointing out a broken link in a post, especially one that's part of a Sequence.

Comment author: pedanterrific 24 October 2011 10:22:53PM 4 points [-]

I acknowledge the legitimacy of demanding I google the phrase before requesting another link

I was being rather passive-aggressive, wasn't I? I apologize.

and will attempt to increase the frequency with which that's part of my response to such an occasion

I find it's a generally useful policy, yes.

but maintain the general usefulness of pointing out a broken link in a post, especially one that's part of a Sequence.

On this we agree.