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I reckon this is another interesting consequence of the feedback system. Stack Exchange encourages fair writers to get really good, and discourages poor writers
by Pitarou 10y ago
I reckon this is another interesting consequence of the feedback system. Stack Exchange encourages fair writers to get really good, and discourages poor writers until they give up.
> Very, very few people can succeed on all three fronts in technical writing.
Indeed! A successful writer needn't be a brilliant writer. It's more important that they know which combinations of precision, concision and readability they can achieve, and they select the combination that is best suited to the task at hand.
More talented writers can achieve better trade offs, but even Vladimir Nabokov would get downvoted if he answered a hello world question with exhaustive documentation of compiler flags.