Ah, perhaps I misunderstood the negative perception. It sounds like you see him as incompetent, and since he’s working with a subject that you care about that registers as disgusting?
I can understand cringing at the content. Some of it registers that way to me, too. I think Gleb’s admitted that he’s still working to improve. I won’t bother copy-pasting the argument that’s been made elsewhere on the thread that the target audience has different tastes. It may be the case that InIn’s content is garbage.
I guess I just wanted to step in and second jsteinhardt’s comment that Gleb is a very growth-oriented and positive, regardless of whether his writing is good enough.
It sounds like you see him as incompetent, and since he’s working with a subject that you care about that registers as disgusting?
Not only that—let me again stress the point that his texts cause the “Ewwww” reaction, not “Oh, this is dumb”. The slime-and-snake-oil feeling would still be there even if he were writing in the same way about, say, the ballet in China.
As to “positive”, IlyaShpitser mentioned chutzpah which I think is a better description :-/
Ah, perhaps I misunderstood the negative perception. It sounds like you see him as incompetent, and since he’s working with a subject that you care about that registers as disgusting?
I can understand cringing at the content. Some of it registers that way to me, too. I think Gleb’s admitted that he’s still working to improve. I won’t bother copy-pasting the argument that’s been made elsewhere on the thread that the target audience has different tastes. It may be the case that InIn’s content is garbage.
I guess I just wanted to step in and second jsteinhardt’s comment that Gleb is a very growth-oriented and positive, regardless of whether his writing is good enough.
Not only that—let me again stress the point that his texts cause the “Ewwww” reaction, not “Oh, this is dumb”. The slime-and-snake-oil feeling would still be there even if he were writing in the same way about, say, the ballet in China.
As to “positive”, IlyaShpitser mentioned chutzpah which I think is a better description :-/