I was thinking of people who write comments without reading the post, which pollutes the conversation. Or people who form broad opinions about a writer or a blog without reading. I deal with those people all day every day on Twitter and in the blog comments.
I didn’t mean people deciding what to read based on the title. Of course everyone does that! Someone seeing ‘Go F*** Someone’ may assume that the post will be somewhat vulgar, and will talk about sex. Both things are true. People not interested in vulgar writing about sex shouldn’t read it. If I titled it ‘A Consideration of Narcissism as it Affects the Formation of Long Term Bonds’ that would actually be more misleading, since people would not expect it to be a vulgar post about sex and will get upset.
I was thinking of people who write comments without reading the post, which pollutes the conversation. Or people who form broad opinions about a writer or a blog without reading. I deal with those people all day every day on Twitter and in the blog comments.
I didn’t mean people deciding what to read based on the title. Of course everyone does that! Someone seeing ‘Go F*** Someone’ may assume that the post will be somewhat vulgar, and will talk about sex. Both things are true. People not interested in vulgar writing about sex shouldn’t read it. If I titled it ‘A Consideration of Narcissism as it Affects the Formation of Long Term Bonds’ that would actually be more misleading, since people would not expect it to be a vulgar post about sex and will get upset.