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mk  ·  1572 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: PSA: We are in the midst of a Hubski experiment.

    mk, how do you recognise thoughtful comments and thoughtful posts when you see them? How do you recognise their opposite?

I believe we all have that ability, and like many things which we can recognize, there's no simple test for it.

Like SCOTUS Justice Potter Stewart wrote on pornography:

    I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it...