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by justinlloyd 1413 days ago
In videogames, "If there are enemies ahead of you, then you are going the right now."

I have long held the belief that if the audience of Reddit or Twitter or Slashdot or Hackernews universally hates something with such vehemance that you doubt your own thoughts then you are probably doing the right thing.

In the words of Casey Neistat, in his video "Do what you can't." - "To the haters, the doubters, my 7th grade vice principal, to everyoneone who has ever anyone with a dream they can't..."
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remram 1413 days ago
That's a terrible outlook. You are saying that all negative feedback should be ignored by everybody and treated as a positive sign. This is insane.
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justinlloyd 1413 days ago
Nowhere, not once, did I say that all negative feedback should be ignored. I specifically stated "I have long held the belief that if the audience of Reddit or Twitter or Slashdot or Hackernews universally hates something with such vehemance that you doubt your own thoughts then you are probably doing the right thing."

This is not "all negative feedback" or "that it should be ignored by everybody" or "treated as a positive sign" and it is disingenuous of you to imply otherwise or to conflate it as such. I'd like to introduce you to a video between a psychologist and someone with an agenda: "So what you're saying is..." No, that's not what I am saying at all. I cannot decide if you have poor reading comprehension or want to twist someone's words. Perhaps both. I'm done with this discussion with you because I'm not going to engage with someone who suffers from the former or wants to engage in the latter.

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leaflets2 1413 days ago
A different but similar saying could be:

"If you've found something that arouses interest and debate, you might be on to something"

And critique, or a gathering of enemies, is interest in something

(interest in the stuff the enemies in the game are guarding)

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remram 1412 days ago
You could be getting hate with vehemence because you are doing something genuinely hurtful to society, or wrong, or illegal. You said that "if most of the audience [...] universally hates something, [...] you are probably doing the right thing". I restated it a little bit earlier, but surely you see how overly generic your statement is?

What is even the point of soliciting feedback if you will take a universally negative response as a positive?

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