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by sgt101 2990 days ago
The existence of writing like this is why analytics (and attention) are not good ways of deciding if style and subject are "working". Clearly many people hate it - like Garlic - many people hate Garlic; Garlic fails the attention / analytics test. Pop Tarts pass!

And yet a world of Pop Tarts is sooooooo boring... And no one makes heart stoppingly good fish stew using Pop Tarts.

This fella may not have written the best piece of the week, we may not remember this piece tomorrow - but I think that the fact that he's attempting to create something gives him a chance of actually getting there. Looking at a dashboard completely kills that in my opinion.

Screw the stats! Make what you think is good !