My apologies, but this topic is a little bit biased.
Three poll options are about possible negative qualities of the articles, while the other three are about how the forum or user supposedly sucks. Where's the neutral or good options?
The title, "to see if forums really need depth knowledge", presents the assumption that these articles are in depth. The poll options seem to put the blame more on the user, rather than the quality of these articles.
There aren't a directly positive or directly negative poll options, like
"I have read these articles, and find them informative or thought inspiring"
"I have read these articles, and found them to not be interesting"
etc.
It could be better with
"The ideas are very original, and well written"
"The ideas are very original, but poorly presented"
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The titles of the articles are very interesting.
It seems like it would read well as a book that I could give to someone, with a few edits.
It is solid as a base layer introduction to themes, and it must take time to construct these. As a forum post that's meant to inspire discussion, in what looks to be more hardcore bitcoin forum
But I find the articles to be a bit wordy with more room for exploration and improved clarity.
Let's take the "what is game theory?" post.
When I read the original
Game theory is a new embranchment of modern mathematics and an important subject of operations research, covering many ideas in economics. It revolves around the interaction among formulated incentive structures, mathematical theory and method of competition. It takes individual predicative behavior and actual behavior into consideration and explore their optimized strategy. It refers to the action of two or more people, by taking advantage of the strategy of the opposite party, to adjust their own tactics and finally win victory. Briefly, in an interactive game, while you’re choosing your own approach, you have to predict others’ decisions. Similarly, others’ are thinking over yours as well. It’s a multi-game process where everyone strives to maximize his own interest.
I feel like I never got the definition of what game theory was. It's there, but it's in the 'Briefly,' sentence that appears near the end after reading wordy lines.
I feel cheated when I read 'Briefly,' after reading a paragraph.
Small tweaks in the writing style would help a lot to clarify the messages. To demonstrate, I've used those sentences, shortened and reorganized, and feel much more satisfied by the end:
Briefly, in an interactive game, while you’re choosing your own approach, you have to predict others’ decisions. Similarly, others’ are thinking over yours as well.
Game theory refers to the action of two or more people, by taking advantage of the strategy of the opposite party, to adjust their own tactics and finally win victory. It’s a multi-game process where everyone strives to maximize his own interest.
This new important subject of operations research, covering many formulated ideas in economics, incentive structures, mathematical theory and method of competition. It takes individual predicative behavior and actual behavior into consideration and explore their optimized strategy.
Much better?
I feel this way when reading a lot of this author.
I feel cheated when I read the writing.
But perhaps the reason is that I don't understand vantage point of the author compared with the audience,
keeping in mind that the audience is forum members with a probable high degree of knowledge, considering
that they took the time to make an account on a very specialised forum..
I also don't have a feel for who the writer is, so don't feel that I can appropriately judge the work,
and the motivation. Is it a person new, intermediate, or expert to bitcoin?
What's the angle? Is it to promote bitcoin? Is it excitement about what crypto can do? Is it genuine belief?
I feel confused as to whether it's someone who is genuinely learning who will do well, especially with more experience and practise,
where dialogue would help them improve?
Or is it someone who will one day pop out to turn around and sell something, because the topics are very regular with a lot of time put into them,
so it seems out of place to have a pure hobbyist write?
I hope that my writing here is genuinely helpful. I try not to be so critical unless I think it can help..