Why are you throwing "knee-jerk naysaying" and having a conscience and an awareness of the recklessness and greed of some, and of the lack of spine of others in one bucket?
What about the knee-jerk cheerleading? How does that express more and deeper interest than discussing potential pitfalls? I don't know about anyone else, but when I code I spend more time thinking about what could go wrong and how to address that, than admiring the parts that work perfectly.
When someone gushes at the mouth about how "awesome" it is that it took many very talented people a lot of time to make a toaster play music, the heretics are quiet already. What more do you want?
There seems to be a trade-off of chilling effects here, on the one hand, nobody would show off things they made to a community that just bashes it, on the other hand, nobody would show off their serious thoughts to a community that just wants fluff.
> sometimes relevant and valuable when they have actual numbers behind them
Oh, "actual numbers". Do you have any actual numbers proving they aren't held to the standard they should be held to? If you do, I changed my mind, I now want actual Egyptian hieroglyphs of a seer announcing you making that claim; I can make up arbitrary, oddly convenient demands too.
What about the knee-jerk cheerleading? How does that express more and deeper interest than discussing potential pitfalls? I don't know about anyone else, but when I code I spend more time thinking about what could go wrong and how to address that, than admiring the parts that work perfectly.
When someone gushes at the mouth about how "awesome" it is that it took many very talented people a lot of time to make a toaster play music, the heretics are quiet already. What more do you want?
There seems to be a trade-off of chilling effects here, on the one hand, nobody would show off things they made to a community that just bashes it, on the other hand, nobody would show off their serious thoughts to a community that just wants fluff.
> sometimes relevant and valuable when they have actual numbers behind them
Oh, "actual numbers". Do you have any actual numbers proving they aren't held to the standard they should be held to? If you do, I changed my mind, I now want actual Egyptian hieroglyphs of a seer announcing you making that claim; I can make up arbitrary, oddly convenient demands too.