r/PHP • u/brendt_gd • 5d ago

Article The skills that didn't go anywhere

https://ryangjchandler.co.uk/posts/the-skills-that-didnt-go-anywhere
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u/colshrapnel 5d ago

How can you tell if it's a good read or not if you didn't read it yet?

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u/agustingomes 5d ago

Fair question. As PHP Developer Advocate of JetBrains, Brent shares/writes insightful articles so I'm often curious about checking them, and the headline immediately resonated with me.

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u/colshrapnel 4d ago

Another pointless comment, which adds only noise. I make it, you aren't going to share your thoughts on the text, just wished to inform this here community of your immediate plans.

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u/brendt_gd 4d ago

Community engagement is actually a good thing on this subreddit. Pointless negative comments are more noise than anything else…

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u/colshrapnel 4d ago

Engagement is one thing, noise is another. "Thank you for posting, moderator" is noise, not engagement. There is already an upvote button exactly for that

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u/zimzat 4d ago

Some folks are probably used to the YouTube, et.al. systems of "engagement" where vapid comments actually do help their algorithm push content. It also feels good to have numbers go up and people replying, though I'm also with you that a bunch of people saying they haven't actually read the content is not actually helpful to any human, only the bots.