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1. amrrs+(OP)[view] [source] 2019-08-08 10:01:01
> On any given day, its top links might include a Medium post about technical hiring

Isn't it quite ironic to see the article suggesting that HN top link might include Medium post. I've usually read not-so-positive feedback about Medium posts. Isn't it the case?

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2. malux8+c1[view] [source] 2019-08-08 10:16:13
>>amrrs+(OP)
Why not judge the post by the insightfulness of the content, rather than the domain from which it originates?
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3. e12e+g1[view] [source] 2019-08-08 10:17:04
>>amrrs+(OP)
All links on the front page are "top links".
4. pjc50+l2[view] [source] 2019-08-08 10:31:45
>>amrrs+(OP)
Medium has good content behind an increasingly infuriating presentation. Mechanically it's the opposite of HN, but for various reasons (reach, possibility of reimbursment) people do write some quality content there.
5. DanBC+R2[view] [source] 2019-08-08 10:39:12
>>amrrs+(OP)
Sturgeon's Law says 90% of anything is crap.

Since anyone can write for medium, and anyone with an HN account can post medium links here, there are huge amounts of medium content. So we see a lot of that 90%, as well as the 10% that's useful.

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6. paulgb+63[view] [source] [discussion] 2019-08-08 10:43:00
>>malux8+c1
When you're looking at a page of 30 links, the signaling value of a domain is useful. Medium is a low-barrier place to publish, and has discovery built in, so it ends up attracting a lot of bad writing and promotional material. That, combined with the degraded reading experience, is why I am happy to judge a book by its cover in this case.
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7. fphhot+l4[view] [source] 2019-08-08 11:01:50
>>amrrs+(OP)
I think the argument goes that Medium, the platform, is bad for the internet as a whole and probably getting worse for its users, too.

Articles on Medium range from quite insightful to clickbait junk, as is the way of most open-ish access platforms.

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8. LandR+85[view] [source] [discussion] 2019-08-08 11:14:53
>>paulgb+63
I've found the majority of content on medium.com to be so useless that I now run a plugin in my browser to block medium.com from my DDG results.
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9. dredmo+su[view] [source] [discussion] 2019-08-08 14:39:31
>>malux8+c1
Batched signals matter.

A publication's "editorial voice", ranging from grammar and typography, to selection and discussion philosophy, are significant. There's a reason we see things as "New York Times" or "Fox News" or "Mad Magazine" or "Cosmo" or "The Economist" or "Soldier of Fortune" in voice or tone.

This is harder to pin down with blogs and social media, though distinctions can emerge, whether through self-selection, path-dependency, gross scale, algorithms, or some combination of the set.

Prejudice can be misused, but its advantage (to the judger) is that it makes judgement cheaper by reducing the set of what needs to be considered, at least for an initial judgement.

That's characteristic of any domain in which there's an information overload, or in which distinctions are subtle and difficult to identify initially. And argument, by the way, for dealing with copious information less by enhanced processing and more by expedited (and cheap!) discarding heuristics.

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