Drafting edits. I trust that you can see past the basic “I’m being attacked” feeling and can recognise the effort and time that has gone into the comments.
I feel a pull towards downvoting this. I am not going to, because I think this was posted in good faith, and as you say, it’s clear a lot of time and effort has gone into these comments. That said, I’d like to unpack my reaction a bit. It may be you disagree with my take, but it may also be there’s something useful in it.
[EDIT: I should disclaim that my reaction may be biased from having recently received an aggressive comment.]
First, I should note that I don’t know why you did these edits. Did sarahconstantin ask you to? Did you think a good post was being lost behind poor presentation? Is it to spell out your other comment in more detail? Knowing the answer to this might have changed my reaction.
My most important concern is why this feedback was public. The only (charitable) reason I can think of is to give space for pushback of the kind that I am giving.
My other major concern is presentation. The sentence ‘I trust that you can see past the basic “I’m being attacked” feeling and can recognise the effort and time that has gone into the comments’ felt to me like a status move and potentially upsetting someone then asking them to say thank you.
I want this level of feedback culture to be more common. I want every writer to be able to grow from in depth pulling apart of their words and putting back together. Quality writing comes from iteration. Often on the small details like the hedges and the examples and the flow.
I trust
I wanted to be blatant about the effort not being ignored. I’d be sad if the comments were barely read. I was hoping to show awareness of myself in doing what might have been taken as a jerk move, (twice if you include the comment).
I don’t know how to do the blatant thing without words, and my other option of post without comment didn’t have the same effect.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cVqBm84AY-2yU9ejWAtM4H4C_deRaBxlZuTreYOoHPc/edit?usp=sharing
Drafting edits. I trust that you can see past the basic “I’m being attacked” feeling and can recognise the effort and time that has gone into the comments.
I feel a pull towards downvoting this. I am not going to, because I think this was posted in good faith, and as you say, it’s clear a lot of time and effort has gone into these comments. That said, I’d like to unpack my reaction a bit. It may be you disagree with my take, but it may also be there’s something useful in it.
[EDIT: I should disclaim that my reaction may be biased from having recently received an aggressive comment.]
First, I should note that I don’t know why you did these edits. Did sarahconstantin ask you to? Did you think a good post was being lost behind poor presentation? Is it to spell out your other comment in more detail? Knowing the answer to this might have changed my reaction.
My most important concern is why this feedback was public. The only (charitable) reason I can think of is to give space for pushback of the kind that I am giving.
My other major concern is presentation. The sentence ‘I trust that you can see past the basic “I’m being attacked” feeling and can recognise the effort and time that has gone into the comments’ felt to me like a status move and potentially upsetting someone then asking them to say thank you.
I want this level of feedback culture to be more common. I want every writer to be able to grow from in depth pulling apart of their words and putting back together. Quality writing comes from iteration. Often on the small details like the hedges and the examples and the flow.
I don’t know how to do the blatant thing without words, and my other option of post without comment didn’t have the same effect.
I suggest that you only make comments like this for people who’ve opted in.
Regardless of that, I request that you not make comments like this on anything I post.
(I had written reasons for these, but on the spirit of the post, I’m defaulting to not including them.)
Sure that’s fine. Let me know if you change your mind.