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Kinda exactly what I needed this week. Every time I go on HN, Reddit, really much of anywhere all I see are people bitching and moaning about the most inane thi
by quaunaut 12y ago
Kinda exactly what I needed this week. Every time I go on HN, Reddit, really much of anywhere all I see are people bitching and moaning about the most inane things, criticizing products for not being something they were never intended to be, or tearing into decisions for being idiotic when it's pretty obvious someone's hand was forced.
The last paragraph is important. As much as I've enjoyed being on HN the past few years, and Reddit the past 8, I'm fairly close to swearing myself off of them entirely so I can focus better without rampant discouragement for the sake of the commenter's ego.
- minimaxir 12y ago> criticizing products for not being something they were never intended to be, or tearing into decisions for being idiotic when it's pretty obvious someone's hand was forced. The inverse, where everything is positive and criticism is ignored, is just as bad, if not worse. The fact that we may not be able to predict the next big thing does not give everything immunity from critique.
- quaunaut 12y agoThere's a pretty obvious difference though between criticism for the sake of stroking your own ego, and criticism as a means of trying to better a product or legitimately point out its flaws. One introduces better conversation, another one is crowding around something to be kicked.
- StandardFuture 12y agoI believe it's called: Constructive Criticism.