I feel I can't post them without hedging around everything a bit more,
I know what you mean. The ironic thing is that I do it on both sides; the problem is partially in the situation as well as in the people.
I find myself critiquing a post for essentially irrelevant stuff, which is often interesting, but frustrating for whoever made it. But conversely, I'm torn between being bold and sweeping, and striving to be unimpeccably correct.
I get a visceral sense of satisfaction from being sweeping (cf. http://maddox.xmission.com/), and it's often more interesting to read. And yet, I always value correctness, and always feel guilty when some pedant comes along and says "when you said X was ALWAYS useless, in fact, it's often useful in [long list of edge cases]". I've heard the same thing from big bloggers: sometimes the most interesting stuff is when they had a small audience and felt free to let rip with their opinions: now people expect them to be RIGHT and every minor point generates 100s of pedants who quibble with it.
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I know what you mean. The ironic thing is that I do it on both sides; the problem is partially in the situation as well as in the people.
I find myself critiquing a post for essentially irrelevant stuff, which is often interesting, but frustrating for whoever made it. But conversely, I'm torn between being bold and sweeping, and striving to be unimpeccably correct.
I get a visceral sense of satisfaction from being sweeping (cf. http://maddox.xmission.com/), and it's often more interesting to read. And yet, I always value correctness, and always feel guilty when some pedant comes along and says "when you said X was ALWAYS useless, in fact, it's often useful in [long list of edge cases]". I've heard the same thing from big bloggers: sometimes the most interesting stuff is when they had a small audience and felt free to let rip with their opinions: now people expect them to be RIGHT and every minor point generates 100s of pedants who quibble with it.