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And clicking on a link to GitHub takes no time at all. Is there anything wrong with that approach? Furthermore, I feel that you shouldn't blame the author for omissions if their post is shared outside of the intended audience.

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I suspect there was a human who posted a link to the OP's post here on HN. It is -that- human who was being asked to provide context since they should have know that by posting a link to HN, they are posting a link to a community that may be different from the OP's original audience.

i.e.- this was not a rerquest or taner saner to provide context, but a request for @ericdiao to provide context.

Except HN explicitly discourages this: You can intentionally submit either a text post or a link, but not both. For links, you could theoretically edit the title, but there too, the guidelines state that you should just use the original title from the article if possible.

Yes, it's a shame that HN doesn't include a short 1- or 2-sentence summary of each article (on the front page).

Exactly. I also think it would be interesting to know why someone decided to submit an article, so they could write their reasoning in there too.

We could make every reader do the extra work, or the author could write a few words once.

It seems you are suggesting they would do it every time they post though

Well, yeah, you can go bug the authors of stories like this that someone (not the author!) at HN decides to post a link to that they need to change how they write for the benefit of an audience they aren't actively seeking, but I doubt that will do much good.

But its especially silly to post on HN that authors need to change how they are writing in a thread on an article that wasn't posted here by the author, and where there is no indication that the author is a member of the community.

He could title that section Why #3.

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