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So you haven’t made it past the second heading and already felt compelled to “disagree wholeheartedly”? The article is _precisely_ about the knee-jerk reaction
by hynek 4y ago
So you haven’t made it past the second heading and already felt compelled to “disagree wholeheartedly”? The article is _precisely_ about the knee-jerk reaction you’re exhibiting and trying to explain why that decades old principles makes more sense than it seems.
Please search for “If you’re anything like me, that makes no sense! What else am I supposed to mock?” and read with an open mind.
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- swatcoder 4y agoAssuming you care about clarity and not just style, there might be some feedback to take in when people don't get the gist of what you're saying until after the second heading. Even if you want to make the writing a journey that arrives at a conclusion rather than a thesis-first argument, the presentation immediately being scattered across a bunch of embedded block quotes and long asides (your disclaimer) invites readers to lose the path, give up, and just make assumptions about the remainder. And what always happens on the internet when people do that? Comments that miss the point and confuse everybody else about what you were saying. You're right that the other commenter could have been more responsible, but odds are that someone was going to post a comment like even if it didn't happen to be them.
- hynek 4y agoI put the disclaimer there, because I was afraid people would stop reading and start arguing about mocks vs fakes vs etc. But you’re right, people skip the lede (mentions counter-intuitive, I hoped that set the mood) and lose patience, so I’ll try to swap the blocks and see if the comments improve.