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Of course not. None of us is ever the only one. But it doesn't do much good to gripe about it, either. If you don't like it, don't finish reading it, and don't

Of course not. None of us is ever the only one. But it doesn't do much good to gripe about it, either. If you don't like it, don't finish reading it, and don't upvote the submission. That's sufficient. Complaining here, where authors almost never see it and would probably never care, is not a good use of your energy.

jcims 7y ago
It would be nice if there was some author metadata in the page that you could hook an extension to in order to rate them. Keep from getting tricked in the future. Bore me once, shame on you, bore me twice, shame on me. haha
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  I'd say that usually the section of the title (newspaper, website, whatever) that produces a story is a better guide - usually, I'd water, writers write what editors ask for; when a writer can write many different forms of story filtering by writer seems less helpful.
rozab 7y ago
I've have never understood this attitude that shuts down all 'complaining', especially about things that are free. Why not take the opportunity to have a discussion about the purposes of journalism, instead of complaining about the commenters complaining? I think the comment invites valuable discussion about this.
- FroshKiller 7y ago
  Then go have that valuable discussion.
  - wpietri 7y ago
    Exactly. I don't have a lot of interest in comments that boil down to, "This thing was not made for me and I'm upset!" People like different things. People like to make different things. If somebody wants to start a discussion about narrative journalism's place in the world, fine. If they want to ask for a more condensed version of the story, also fine. Better still if they say, "I'm not a fan of narrative journalism, so I dug around and here are the 3 best traditional news stories I could find on the topic." But otherwise, I'm with the "I DON"T LIKE THING" angel: https://thefrogman.me/post/41542126320/by-jo-b-tumblr-for-we-all-draw https://thefrogman.me/post/41542126320/by-jo-b-tumblr-for-we...

jcims 7y ago

It would be nice if there was some author metadata in the page that you could hook an extension to in order to rate them. Keep from getting tricked in the future. Bore me once, shame on you, bore me twice, shame on me. haha

pbhjpbhj 7y ago
I'd say that usually the section of the title (newspaper, website, whatever) that produces a story is a better guide - usually, I'd water, writers write what editors ask for; when a writer can write many different forms of story filtering by writer seems less helpful.

rozab 7y ago

I've have never understood this attitude that shuts down all 'complaining', especially about things that are free. Why not take the opportunity to have a discussion about the purposes of journalism, instead of complaining about the commenters complaining? I think the comment invites valuable discussion about this.

FroshKiller 7y ago
Then go have that valuable discussion.
- wpietri 7y ago
  Exactly. I don't have a lot of interest in comments that boil down to, "This thing was not made for me and I'm upset!" People like different things. People like to make different things. If somebody wants to start a discussion about narrative journalism's place in the world, fine. If they want to ask for a more condensed version of the story, also fine. Better still if they say, "I'm not a fan of narrative journalism, so I dug around and here are the 3 best traditional news stories I could find on the topic." But otherwise, I'm with the "I DON"T LIKE THING" angel: https://thefrogman.me/post/41542126320/by-jo-b-tumblr-for-we-all-draw https://thefrogman.me/post/41542126320/by-jo-b-tumblr-for-we...