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> Really why some people believe that all the content of Internet must be attuned to their personal quirks? I read the OP as constructive feedback not an attac

> Really why some people believe that all the content of Internet must be attuned to their personal quirks? I read the OP as constructive feedback not an attack. I also think that their advice is practically bog standard writing advice not a personality quirk. I would also suggest that you might look in the mirror at your own comment when accusing someone of imposing their personality quirks on someone else.

arnorhs 2y ago
Constructive feedback usually has a more inviting, accepting and helpful tone of voice. As opposed to the commenter you are referring to, which seemed dismissive and slightly rude to me, tbh. Aside from the tone, the specific feedback was also a miss, imo. It was written from the standpoint of as if they were reading a marketing page, or a show hn post, which it is not. It is simply a blog post. An article. To me it provided a bunch of context and was kind of enjoyable. When you have a marketing page or some kind of "check it out" post, there is a certain level of expectation that the reader can expect and it's even reasonable to complain when the given post does not get to the point. I agree with that. This is not such a thing
- 2colours 2y ago
  I wonder where you got that impression from. For me as well, it's rather the overboard lecturing response that seemed like an invocation of "Trevors axiom". By the way, what even defines "simply a blog post"? That's just a media format that doesn't say much about the content itself, does it? I do agree with the sentiment that it would have been good to know what the article is even going to be. Not even the paragraphs were very helpful in this regard. It does improve the reception of an article if it meets the intended audience. In retrospect, this article is mostly about a basic compiler frontend language and how to bootstrap that into a fully-featured concatenative programming language. Which to me personally is a "hm, okay, interesting" kind of thing but I didn't read the article for this premise. I read it for the "new antisyntax language" and feel it was clickbaitish.

arnorhs 2y ago

Constructive feedback usually has a more inviting, accepting and helpful tone of voice. As opposed to the commenter you are referring to, which seemed dismissive and slightly rude to me, tbh. Aside from the tone, the specific feedback was also a miss, imo. It was written from the standpoint of as if they were reading a marketing page, or a show hn post, which it is not. It is simply a blog post. An article. To me it provided a bunch of context and was kind of enjoyable. When you have a marketing page or some kind of "check it out" post, there is a certain level of expectation that the reader can expect and it's even reasonable to complain when the given post does not get to the point. I agree with that. This is not such a thing

2colours 2y ago
I wonder where you got that impression from. For me as well, it's rather the overboard lecturing response that seemed like an invocation of "Trevors axiom". By the way, what even defines "simply a blog post"? That's just a media format that doesn't say much about the content itself, does it? I do agree with the sentiment that it would have been good to know what the article is even going to be. Not even the paragraphs were very helpful in this regard. It does improve the reception of an article if it meets the intended audience. In retrospect, this article is mostly about a basic compiler frontend language and how to bootstrap that into a fully-featured concatenative programming language. Which to me personally is a "hm, okay, interesting" kind of thing but I didn't read the article for this premise. I read it for the "new antisyntax language" and feel it was clickbaitish.