EDIT: nevermind, I just see that you wrote Contrarian Writing Advice in response to Daniel Kokotaiko. I haven’t read that.
Disagree with 2, 6. Not sure about 5. Agree with others.
2. Write the minimum necessary to prove a point. Do not preempt counterarguments.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/20/writing-advice/ Scott suggests to anticipate and defuse counterarguments. (#8 of his list). I rarely write anything but it seems about right to preemptively refute the most likely ways that people will misunderstand you. I also like Duncan’s Ruling Out Everything Else, which suggests setting up some boundaries so that other’s cannot misinterpret you too much.
6. Do not repeat yourself.
Using examples help readers understand and using a lot of examples will probably make you repeat some points a few times. (Perhaps you don’t count that as repeating yourself?) It is probably best if you use more examples but mark them as non-compulsory reading in one way or another.
EDIT: nevermind, I just see that you wrote Contrarian Writing Advice in response to Daniel Kokotaiko. I haven’t read that.
Disagree with 2, 6. Not sure about 5. Agree with others.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/20/writing-advice/
Scott suggests to anticipate and defuse counterarguments. (#8 of his list). I rarely write anything but it seems about right to preemptively refute the most likely ways that people will misunderstand you. I also like Duncan’s Ruling Out Everything Else, which suggests setting up some boundaries so that other’s cannot misinterpret you too much.
Using examples help readers understand and using a lot of examples will probably make you repeat some points a few times. (Perhaps you don’t count that as repeating yourself?) It is probably best if you use more examples but mark them as non-compulsory reading in one way or another.