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Some tactics for writing in public

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Some tactics for writing in public

Someone recently asked me - "how do you deal with writing in public? People on the internet are such assholes!" I've often heard the advice "don't read the comments", but actually I've learned a huge amount from reading internet comments on my posts from strangers over the years, even if sometimes people are jerks. So I want to explain some tactics I use to try to make the comments on my posts more informative and useful to me, and to try to minimize the number of annoying comments I get. talk about facts On here I mostly talk about facts - either facts about computers, or stories about my exp

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