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Comment by KennyBlanken | Hacker News Reader

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You've employed a strawman fallacy; you took a policy which is on its face pretty reasonable:

"be mindful to provide enough information so viewers understand the context"

and hyperbolized it, to put it mildly, into: "you are forced to write some commentary explaining what it's about and assuring everyone that you aren't..."

Context is the opposite of "an explicit statement spelling it all out."

Maybe I post photos of a vacation trip somewhere there was a car with an ISIS logo on it. The information and context they are talking about would be "2020 Vacation photos" for the album title and it being accompanied by pictures of sunsets, my partner, birbs, etc. that make it plainly obvious it just is a random car in my vacation photos.

>Context is the opposite of "an explicit statement spelling it all out."

Just because the context is very explicit does not mean that it's not context. Is it additional information that clarifies the primary info? Then it's context.

And how does that work when you're researching tanks and other military vehicles? Perhaps the researchers should photoshop someone wearing shorts and drinking a pina colada into their catalog of armored fighting vehicles from the Middle East.

> And how does that work when you're researching tanks and other military vehicles?

The title / description that says something like "Study of the use of mechanized artillery by guerilla fighters in the blah blah region", which is what you'd do anyway if it were for public consumption?

Don't be obtuse.

So

"Study of the use of mechanized artillery by guerilla fighters in the blah blah region"

is context but

"use of mechanized artillery by guerilla fighters in the blah blah region"

is promotion? Clear as mud.

Remember when ISIS started showing beheadings on Youtube and people thought it should be allowed to inform the public of how horrible they were? Turns out it was actually promotion and helped recruit foreign fighters.

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