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Because it is not actually that fun writing for a lot of people. Because you get no or little feedback? Mild embarassment too?
by quickthrower2 4y ago
Because it is not actually that fun writing for a lot of people. Because you get no or little feedback? Mild embarassment too?
- ornornor 4y agoWhat if you don’t have a comments section? Considering publishing posts I’ve already written (but too scared to publish) and that’s a concern. You can’t get everyone to agree and can’t be liked by everyone but the internet can be savage and hurtful.
- brabel 4y agoFeedback can be savage when you make a slight mistake (or even not a mistake, you just go a little bit against the pack on some topic you understand more than others). That definitely keeps me from writing more and bias me to only publish "safe" posts that are likely to be in agreement with the current trends (which in my case is rarely).
- Bakary 4y agoThis is the visibility bias at work. Just because someone posted a comment doesn't mean it's worth looking at. In fact, you can probably safely discard the opinions of the type of person that has the time and inclination to post "well akshually" rebuttals under random blog posts. And yes I'm aware of the irony of an HN user saying this.
- quickthrower2 4y agoI love a real comment though! Mostly get spam!
- podviaznikov 4y agoyou can flip this! It’s possible to write for yourself. This is why for many years I had no analytics and no comments on my blog. A wrote on this 6 years ago - https://podviaznikov.com/writings/on-obsession-with-numbers https://podviaznikov.com/writings/on-obsession-with-numbers - I think I have even more ideas on this topic now.