<story><title>Some tactics for writing in public</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/07/tactics-for-writing-in-public/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjb</author><text>This is really great, actionable, sensible, advice for folks who write on the internet. It agrees with my experiences, too.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, it&amp;#x27;s sad that the culture we have built on the internet forces talented people like Julia to censor themselves and narrow the scope of their writing.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; So I have a weird catalog in my head of things not to mention if I don’t want to start the same discussion about that thing for the 50th time.&lt;p&gt;Somehow we&amp;#x27;ve built a culture where its socially acceptable, and even rewarded, to behave online in ways that would never be acceptable in other social settings. The exact flavors of that on HN, Slashdot, Twitter, Tumblr, etc are different, but the core issue is the same everywhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lapcat</author><text>&amp;gt; Somehow we&amp;#x27;ve built a culture where its socially acceptable, and even rewarded, to behave online in ways that would never be acceptable in other social settings.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think we&amp;#x27;ve &amp;quot;built&amp;quot; the culture per se. I think it&amp;#x27;s more like humans evolved over millions of years for small, in-person groups, and we&amp;#x27;re not &amp;quot;built&amp;quot; (by nature) to handle the endless sea of online strangers. On the internet, the personal familiarity is gone, the proximity is gone, the facial expressions and tone are gone, and indeed the fear of repercussions is mostly gone.</text></comment>
<story><title>Some tactics for writing in public</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/07/tactics-for-writing-in-public/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjb</author><text>This is really great, actionable, sensible, advice for folks who write on the internet. It agrees with my experiences, too.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, it&amp;#x27;s sad that the culture we have built on the internet forces talented people like Julia to censor themselves and narrow the scope of their writing.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; So I have a weird catalog in my head of things not to mention if I don’t want to start the same discussion about that thing for the 50th time.&lt;p&gt;Somehow we&amp;#x27;ve built a culture where its socially acceptable, and even rewarded, to behave online in ways that would never be acceptable in other social settings. The exact flavors of that on HN, Slashdot, Twitter, Tumblr, etc are different, but the core issue is the same everywhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure I&amp;#x27;d use censor in the context of Julia&amp;#x27;s post. It read more like the next thing you quoted. Something&amp;#x27;s well-trod and people have strong opinions but absolutely no one is going to change their mind or really make a novel point or learn anything new.&lt;p&gt;I do think there are things that many people self-sensor, e.g. opinions that fall outside or on the edges of the orthodoxy of some bubble and is just going to trigger emotional arguments&amp;#x2F;stereotyping&amp;#x2F;downvotes&amp;#x2F;etc.</text></comment>