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> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombi
by CrazyStat 6mo ago
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- metabagel 6mo agoIn my opinion, it's relevant to Card's credibility. If he shows poor judgement in one area, why would I want to listen to his opinion on something else, even something which is considered to be in his wheelhouse? Poor judgement is poor judgement.
- Dylan16807 6mo agoEveryone shows poor judgement in one area. It sucks that he has those ideas, but he's a good writer.
- shimman 6mo agoHe's a popular writer, but hardly good. No one is going to be reading his books in 50 years, let alone 200.
- falcor84 6mo agoThat's an extremely high bar. But to the extent that critics and awards are the metric we have, he is an objectively good writer.
- alecbz 6mo agoI don't know that you can establish objectively if someone is a good writer. He's an acclaimed, award-winning writer, sure.
- shimman 6mo agoOh course it's a high bar! Why should anyone care about this work outside of the time of their release? It's modern culture but it ain't gonna be passed down anytime soon.
- falcor84 6mo agoIf the bar is that people will continue reading their books in 200 years, than which fiction writers of the last few decades would go into your list of "good"?
- shimman 6mo agoI don't know because you're asking me something that is impossible for a human that only lives to ~80 years. Try asking better questions if you want better responses.
- Dylan16807 6mo agoTake your best guess, obviously. The question is fine. You're already confidently predicting a negative future for Ender's Game, so you're clearly not adverse to predictions.
- peterfirefly 6mo agoThe not-so-short story Ender's Game was great. The novel Ender's Game was awful. I hope someone told him it was too long, too repetitive, and too Gary Stu. I wish he had taken that feedback to heart.
- lamasery 6mo agoThe novella is the only version I've read. I came away both not understanding why a longer, novel-length version would exist, and with no interest in reading anything even slightly worse than that from the same author (which I'm given to understand describes most of his other work). The novella was an alright time, though.
- ectospheno 6mo agoEveryone is very, very wrong about something. By your logic we should ignore everyone about everything.
- Der_Einzige 6mo agoThis but unironically!
- fsckboy 6mo agoit did not make me wish to engage in political or ideological battle, i found it an interesting reflection of a complicated person's thought process. So, any battling is on you (you no doubt have a lot of company: "don't you dare feed us raw meat, we'll jump up and down in our cages and spill the poop buckets")
- aiisjustanif 6mo agoI don’t like when people use this without all the important context. Showing other quotes from the same person that is giving subjective advice on topics, lends to curiosity around how to filter their advice. > It's is a complex and hard question, but the principles we apply to it have been around for a long time and are consistent with the site guidelines. If they weren't, we'd change the latter. > > I've explained all of this many times. If you, or anyone, would like to know how we approach the question, you could start here: > > https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... [1] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373246 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373246