> they don't care about the blog post, which is just an excuse for them to rant about the subject matter This kind of framing/sweeping generalization doesn’t m

> they don't care about the blog post, which is just an excuse for them to rant about the subject matter This kind of framing/sweeping generalization doesn’t make sense to me. There will always be people who will rant for the sake of ranting, but this isn’t universal, nor should it be the base assumption about a reader/commentor. > c/modern/lazy This carries the problematic generalization further. The modern media environment has drastically impacted people’s attention span. There are plenty of critical things to be said about the effects of this trend, but painting this as just a matter of laziness misses the bigger picture. Especially important if you want to create content that encourages people to cultivate attention and stop consuming attention-destroying content. Writing for a “modern” audience isn’t about catering to lazy people, but recognizing what people are up against in an information landscape that increasingly churns out bad information, making it necessary as a reader to assess the content quickly enough to know if it’s time to move on, because there isn’t enough time or attention in a day to give every post a full read. I’m not saying lazy readers don’t exist, but that’s not why I think it’s useful to think about content structure.