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> PG gets held to a higher standard than anything else on here. This is a crazy statement to me. I'm sure you believe it, but I have the exact opposite impress
by shmageggy 5y ago
> PG gets held to a higher standard than anything else on here.
This is a crazy statement to me. I'm sure you believe it, but I have the exact opposite impression: that if the majority of his stuff were posted anonymously on another domain nobody would notice or care.
> even if people don't like something, they don't usually go out of their way to tell the author
I think people do this because of the outsized home-crowd effect. His stuff is always (IMO) disproportionately upvoted here so that entices a reaction.
- omarhaneef 5y ago> if the majority of his stuff were posted anonymously on another domain nobody would notice or care. That may be true, but it does not contradict anything I said.
- shmageggy 5y agoWhat? Yes it does, directly. You said he is held to a higher standard, and I gave a (hypothetical) example of how he is held to a lower standard. HN readers (IMO) give an outsized amount of attention and respect to his articles due to the author's name rather than the quality of the work, thus applying a lower standard.
- omarhaneef 5y agoWe agree on attention, but the "and respect" part is the whole point of the what the poster I am responding to just said. (I get confused if that is the OP or GP)