• sbv@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    Burying a call to action in dense text is such a pain in the butt. I’m generally interested, but considering how many of these go nowhere, it doesn’t seem worth the effort.

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      8 hours ago

      I hear ya. just not sure there is going to be a single buffet of easy, bitesized solutions :-(

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        6 hours ago

        Solutions don’t need to be easy or bite sized, but they do need to be explained in a way that people want to read.

        Burying them in dense text is one step away from putting them on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying “Beware of the Leopard.”

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          6 hours ago

          still slightly less painful than listening to vogon poetry.

          look, the hyperspace bypass is upon us. if you happen upon the literary equivalent of a subether sense-o-matic and a digital thumb, I will have my bathrobe and towel at the ready.

          but we gotta try and take everyone.

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            5 hours ago

            Hiding ideas in text so dense it requires a Babel fish to understand won’t bring many people with us.