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Maybe you should make this clearer to your readers?

• linmob 4y ago
  I trust my regular followers (blog, videos, social media) to somewhat know my tone by now (I've been writing over a hundred blog posts over the past two years), and it’s them I wrote this for. I don’t really know how to make it clearer in the limited time I can justify for low-content-value posts like this – and I did not intend for this to land on the hn front page. My best idea is that I could add a caveat box is reading "Hey, i don't like to brag, it's been fun, so read it it more positively than it's written, but don't ignore the negatives fully.", but that would be super weird. I have a day job that I have to attend now, so I can really only change anything once the attention has moved on to something different.
• kmbfjr 4y ago
  Or just allow and trust the readers to make their own conclusions. I swear, HN readers bitch about the content silos on Web 2.0, but throw anyone still writing on their own blog onto a spit and crank up the heat. Who really cares if the intent is never to buy a PinePhone, it is his freaking blog.
  • thematrixturtle 4y ago
    Nobody's complaining about the author or blog here? If anything, I'm quite grateful to them for documenting all the warts, and making it really clear that the PinePhone is not an option for us casuals in the process.
  • Terry_Roll 4y ago
    > Or just allow and trust the readers to make their own conclusions. Cant do that religions exists where people believe in God without any evidence, and people exist who believe in Govt & democracy, so that says it all really.
• throw10920 4y ago
  Sort of an implicit assumption when publishing a literary work is that the readers can actually read.