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You know the post is bad when the second paragraph is: First of all, it's inevitable but I still hate dramatic headlines, even though I write like this
by mmm10 10y ago
You know the post is bad when the second paragraph is:
First of all, it's inevitable but I still hate dramatic headlines, even though I
write like this myself sometimes. "My time with Rails is up" like it's saying
"And you should leave Rails now too if you're smart". I dismissed the article
entirely because of that. I was about to post a counter-rant to that without
reading it properly, but now that I have, I wrote this new article from scratch.
How can someone admit that he started writing a counter-rant without reading the
original post? I know he said he changed and started from scratch but if someone
admits something like this you can't expect something good afterwards. This might explain
why the rest of the post is just he spiting random stuff to pretend anything
there makes sense.
If you go over other posts in that blog you will notice the same pattern: spit
random (and most of the time wrong) stuff in an attempt that something will make
sense (which never does).
- FooBarWidget 10y agoI cannot agree. I think lots of people (myself included) didn't read the original article and responded purely based on the title. I think that by admitting that he didn't read it and that he corrected that later, he's showing humility (that he too is a fallible human) and that gives his article -more- credibility.
- mmm10 10y agoResponding to something without reading it is just stupid. There's no other way to describe such an action.