Thanks for your reply.
I am curious “you’re likely to get some sympathy, but also some hostility and not necessarily much useful advice here.”
How are you defining hostile here and what may you think the hostility towards me would be in response to? Why would people be doing this if they aren’t themselves emotionally shaken deeply to tears by something I write or say? Just for the fun of it?
I am wondering how thought organization is defined, and if there is a good template to assess if it has been achieved in a writing sample . Right now it just seems like an intuitive sense people have and use to put down others when they think others haven’t achieved it.
Hostility may be too strong a word. It would appear mostly in the form of downvotes and helpful-sounding-but-not-really-actionable comments, for a post on a rationality-related topic that comes across as too fuzzy or incoherent. I don’t think you’ll find the kind of hostility you might on Reddit or Twitter, just a lack of embracing your ideas. It won’t be personal attacks, people here are very good at suppressing their initial emotional reactions, even if it’s a topic that triggers them.
Unfortunately, it’s not something that can be templated—I’d advise reading a lot of posts, and starting with comments and shortform posts, to get a sense of the common styles and the kinds of reactions they get.
Thanks for your reply. I am curious “you’re likely to get some sympathy, but also some hostility and not necessarily much useful advice here.” How are you defining hostile here and what may you think the hostility towards me would be in response to? Why would people be doing this if they aren’t themselves emotionally shaken deeply to tears by something I write or say? Just for the fun of it?
I am wondering how thought organization is defined, and if there is a good template to assess if it has been achieved in a writing sample . Right now it just seems like an intuitive sense people have and use to put down others when they think others haven’t achieved it.
Hostility may be too strong a word. It would appear mostly in the form of downvotes and helpful-sounding-but-not-really-actionable comments, for a post on a rationality-related topic that comes across as too fuzzy or incoherent. I don’t think you’ll find the kind of hostility you might on Reddit or Twitter, just a lack of embracing your ideas. It won’t be personal attacks, people here are very good at suppressing their initial emotional reactions, even if it’s a topic that triggers them.
Unfortunately, it’s not something that can be templated—I’d advise reading a lot of posts, and starting with comments and shortform posts, to get a sense of the common styles and the kinds of reactions they get.