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Totally. Most people aren't experts, so if you write about beginner stuff you will find more people who like your content. If you write for experts only the few experts will know what to make of it. I started blogging this year, writing one post every week and the most basic stuff nicely explained got the most views.
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Getting hate isn't bad. At least people care. Getting ignored is worse. When you've spent hours of your time writing something up that you think is super interesting, and people can't even be bothered to read it and send you some snarky abuse. That's the worst.
No. I'm sorry, but to me this seems like such a childlike mentality: "Any attention is good attention." Being ignored is preferable to being ostracized by the community at large. Or so I thought, anyways. Now I realize that my mistake was publishing in the first place. There's only negative outcomes, in general. You'll meet a few good people along the way, and you have to decide if that is worth the trouble or not, i…
At least you learned that your opinions were considered controversial. You made someone move out of their comfort zone and reach out to you, if only to send hatemail. You have impact on other people. That's something.
But those who are writing posts but get no response whatsoever, are stumbling in the dark. Is the topic boring? Is the post not detailed enough? Too long? Too pompous? Is there a spelling error half-way through, so horrible, that no one manages to read the article to the end? Those people will never know.
Of course, you can hone your writing skills by writing for yourself, but without critique from others, it can only get you so far.
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No. I'm sorry, but to me this seems like such a childlike mentality: "Any attention is good attention." Being ignored is preferable to being ostracized by the community at large. Or so I thought, anyways. Now I realize that my mistake was publishing in the first place. There's only negative outcomes, in general. You'll meet a few good people along the way, and you have to decide if that is worth the trouble or not, i…
But this is not about attention by itself; It's about feedback. At least you learned that your opinions were considered controversial. You made someone move out of their comfort zone and reach out to you, if only to send hatemail. You have impact on other people. That's something. But those who are writing posts but get no response whatsoever, are stumbling in the dark. Is the topic boring? Is the post not detailed e…
So like, i wrote an article about learning to code. It was wrong. I was using outdated research.
But none of my critique of it was about that. I had to discover that later. My crituque was that it was stupid, or unfair, or anti-blue-collar, or whatever. I got 0 value, 0 education, 0 fun, and only regret out o the experience. And it was strictly my diligence on the subject that lead to a correction.
What exactly did I get other than harassment for this process? Maybe you feel differently, but honestly? I don't care how folks feel. Either we have a constructive dialogue, or we don't. I don't want non-constructive dialogues. I can find no consolation in the later kind.
You might look at my content history on HN and say, "But you argue with people a lot." I do, because I feel obligated to do so. I do not like it or enjoy it. It is something I have promised to do; not something I want to.
Even if you aren't using it to become attractive for recruiters, this will probably happen. I went from rarely (like, extremely) getting callbacks for remote gigs to getting around 30%-40% callbacks. The difference was that I started a blog about writing a web application with modern technologies and included it in my applications. It's a pretty bland blog, but just the fact that I wrote about stuff I'm interested in…
Or better yet, write a blog post about it
Even if you aren't using it to become attractive for recruiters, this will probably happen. I went from rarely (like, extremely) getting callbacks for remote gigs to getting around 30%-40% callbacks. The difference was that I started a blog about writing a web application with modern technologies and included it in my applications. It's a pretty bland blog, but just the fact that I wrote about stuff I'm interested in…
Even if you aren't using it to become attractive for recruiters, this will probably happen. I went from rarely (like, extremely) getting callbacks for remote gigs to getting around 30%-40% callbacks. The difference was that I started a blog about writing a web application with modern technologies and included it in my applications. It's a pretty bland blog, but just the fact that I wrote about stuff I'm interested in…
Yes, but prepare yourself. Our community as a whole doesn't reward anything that doesn't fit with the current trends. If you're seen deviating from the social norms, you will get push back, and it's seldom kind or constructive. For example, I wrote this some time ago: http://dave.fayr.am/posts/2011-10-4-rubyists-already-use-mon... I received a lot of hate for this post, both on this site and in other ruby circles. Wh…