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I never said you insulted me. I quite enjoy your writing, and belong to the half of your audience who doesn't give a shit. My point is that your style is very
by jpeterson 16y ago
I never said you insulted me. I quite enjoy your writing, and belong to the half of your audience who doesn't give a shit.
My point is that your style is very personal and confrontational. You usually start discussions by aggressively speaking out against programmers or certain types of programmers, and only after this move on to any specific work that they've done or their ideologies. What you're really trying to criticize is the work.
There's nothing inherently wrong with this, of course. But it probably sets an unnecessary upper bound on your readership.
- zedshaw 16y agoOh, well my appologies then, I was assuming you were offended (there's plenty of them :-) Actually, quite the contrary. Even the people who hate that I insult them still read it...and then talk about it for days on end like they have no lives.
- rgejman 16y agoZed, I also belong to the ranks of people who don't get offended when you insult people. But I wonder what you gain from it. 1. How do you know that the people who do get offended are the same people you don't want to work with? 2. How do you know that ranting actually deters these people from using your products? My point is similar to jpeterman's, but my focus is on how you know that you are actually setting and upper bound on your readership, and if you are, how do you know that you are benefitting?