“Sorry if I’m too harsh, but it seems to me that you are trying to do things the wrong way: get reputation first, do awesome things later. It’s the other way round: do something awesome, then maybe advertise it a bit, people will notice and maybe remember, and then they will give more weight to your later opinions.”
I can see how it’s confusing that I may have suggested I wanted to do this wrong order for myself—I was asking the second question for someone else, actually, who has put in a lot of time/effort to build up lots of ideas/share them on this forum but has gotten very little traction.
“Sorry if I’m too harsh, but it seems to me that you are trying to do things the wrong way: get reputation first, do awesome things later. It’s the other way round: do something awesome, then maybe advertise it a bit, people will notice and maybe remember, and then they will give more weight to your later opinions.”
I can see how it’s confusing that I may have suggested I wanted to do this wrong order for myself—I was asking the second question for someone else, actually, who has put in a lot of time/effort to build up lots of ideas/share them on this forum but has gotten very little traction.