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.
So this would be a good idea for a comm within the community but enforcing this server wide is a bad idea, for the main reason, this place is comatose
making rules on a dead forums doesn’t tend to bring in more people
Yeah, fair to a degree. But it seems comatose also because there aren’t enough commenters for the amount of posts.
Look at Food Australia, CEOofmyhouse does a simple whats for dinner post each day, people comment each day, but it gets buried under the deluge of bot posts constantly posting from the ABC or Guardian. That bot undermines the ability to develop discussions on topics with the smaller commenter base here.
But yes, i think its probably an idea for a certain type of community, not site wide, doesn’t make sense f as a rule for c/pictures or c/foodaustralia.
Maybe I’ll look at doing it for c/auspolitics?
Generally I think it’s a good idea but my doubts revolve around that
- it may be too much information, especially when the authors are unknown.
- it may encourage echo chamber type of reading, or just upvoting without reading because you like the author
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.
