Personally, I find shortform to be an invaluable playground for ideas. When I get downvoted, it feels lower stakes. It’s easier to ignore aloof and smugnorant comments, and easier to update on serious/helpful comments. And depending on how it goes, I sometimes just turn it into a regular post later, with a note at the top saying that it was adapted from a shortform.
If you really want to avoid smackdowns, you could also just privately share your drafts with friends first and ask for respectful corrections.
Spitballing other ideas, I guess you could phrase your claims as questions, like “have objections X, Y, or Z been discussed somewhere already? If so, can anyone link me to those discussions?” Seems like that could fail silently though, if an over-eager commenter gives you a link to low-quality discussion. But there are pros and cons for every course of action/inaction.
Personally, I find shortform to be an invaluable playground for ideas. When I get downvoted, it feels lower stakes. It’s easier to ignore aloof and smugnorant comments, and easier to update on serious/helpful comments. And depending on how it goes, I sometimes just turn it into a regular post later, with a note at the top saying that it was adapted from a shortform.
If you really want to avoid smackdowns, you could also just privately share your drafts with friends first and ask for respectful corrections.
Spitballing other ideas, I guess you could phrase your claims as questions, like “have objections X, Y, or Z been discussed somewhere already? If so, can anyone link me to those discussions?” Seems like that could fail silently though, if an over-eager commenter gives you a link to low-quality discussion. But there are pros and cons for every course of action/inaction.