Time for a brain fart idea,
Should AZ make it a rule that articles/essays must have the author/s in the post title.
- Better promotion of authors could help readers understand the context of the writers more, and build peoples awareness of the writers and their body of work.
To explain my thought more:
The author of something is important, maybe more important than the title. For instance a George Monbiot article is going to be very different from a Michelle Grattan article. Their worldviews are very different. Not saying either are right or wrong, but understanding that these authors don’t write these stories in a vaccum can give a better understanding of what each are trying to communicate leading, especially as familiarity builds, to better context for the reader scrolling through their feed.
- Might make things harder for a few bot posting accounts. I don’t know, this is a side benefit at best.
Yeah these are good points.
Unknown authors is what made me think of the idea. So many people don’t read who its written by, and suddenly you’ll realise you’ve read numerous articles by this person and never looked at their name.
I find the people that were going to upvote without reading will do that anyway.
Seems to be part of the scroll and roll way to use social media. I liken to reading the headlines of a newspaper, the upvote is the interactive part, a bit like turning the pages of a paper.