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While verbose, I do enjoy Patrick's writing. I appreciate this (similarly verbose!) meta-post as well.

by martinky24 2y ago

casenmgreen 2y ago
The more he writes, the better. All of it is worth reading.
- earnesti 2y ago
  LOL no. it is super fluffy. Lots of good stuff in there, but just overly verbose.
  - kristianp 2y ago
    I wish he would learn to make less digressions. I'm currently reading through "debanking and debunking" [1] and the whole part about Silvergate is interesting, but really long. It is relevant, but he goes into full detail about it. Other writers would put that into a separate article. I have limited time to read about these things, maybe 15 minutes max and his articles are often hour-long reads. [1] https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debanking-and-debunking/ https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debanking-and-debunki...
    - casenmgreen 2y ago
      Tolkien wrote of LoTR that he received endless mail from readers, and for every part of the story, to some it was especially wonderful, others especially poor.
    - HeyLaughingBoy 2y ago
      That's actually my only problem with Patrick's articles. I flag them for "read later" and then a month later I still haven't read them because I know how much time I need to set aside.
    - cyanydeez 2y ago
      He swerves in and out of liberal ideology saying "it could happen, but it's not currently; it could happen, but it's not some global conspiracy" He lost me in the digressions to the facts. I agree he presented facts but he really seems like he's trying to scratch the debanking itch while just saying it hasn't happened yet and if it does happen it's because you're electing liberals (again). I appreciate people who respond deeply to facts, but can find fault in the examples he finds to justify the paranoid he's apparently trying to quell.
    - mixmastamyk 2y ago
      Lordy... I followed a link from that to his vaccine website project. Whole morning, gone.
bigstrat2003 2y ago
I think verbosity has an unreasonable stigma attached to it. I think verbosity without any value is bad, but that's not what one gets with Patrick's blogs. He's verbose because he is trying to explain very complex situations to people who have no prior background in them, and that means it's going to get verbose. He couldn't really cut anything without hurting his readers' ability to understand the situations he writes about.

While verbose, I do enjoy Patrick's writing. I appreciate this (similarly verbose!) meta-post as well.

casenmgreen 2y ago

The more he writes, the better. All of it is worth reading.

earnesti 2y ago
LOL no. it is super fluffy. Lots of good stuff in there, but just overly verbose.
- kristianp 2y ago
  I wish he would learn to make less digressions. I'm currently reading through "debanking and debunking" [1] and the whole part about Silvergate is interesting, but really long. It is relevant, but he goes into full detail about it. Other writers would put that into a separate article. I have limited time to read about these things, maybe 15 minutes max and his articles are often hour-long reads. [1] https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debanking-and-debunking/ https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debanking-and-debunki...
  - casenmgreen 2y ago
    Tolkien wrote of LoTR that he received endless mail from readers, and for every part of the story, to some it was especially wonderful, others especially poor.
  - HeyLaughingBoy 2y ago
    That's actually my only problem with Patrick's articles. I flag them for "read later" and then a month later I still haven't read them because I know how much time I need to set aside.
  - cyanydeez 2y ago
    He swerves in and out of liberal ideology saying "it could happen, but it's not currently; it could happen, but it's not some global conspiracy" He lost me in the digressions to the facts. I agree he presented facts but he really seems like he's trying to scratch the debanking itch while just saying it hasn't happened yet and if it does happen it's because you're electing liberals (again). I appreciate people who respond deeply to facts, but can find fault in the examples he finds to justify the paranoid he's apparently trying to quell.
  - mixmastamyk 2y ago
    Lordy... I followed a link from that to his vaccine website project. Whole morning, gone.

bigstrat2003 2y ago

I think verbosity has an unreasonable stigma attached to it. I think verbosity without any value is bad, but that's not what one gets with Patrick's blogs. He's verbose because he is trying to explain very complex situations to people who have no prior background in them, and that means it's going to get verbose. He couldn't really cut anything without hurting his readers' ability to understand the situations he writes about.