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Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 20 - Reactions to this blog
I’ve gotten very little feedback on my posts since I started this blog, and the few that I’ve gotten have been mostly negative. I’ve never heard anything but negative feedback from readers of my blog posts, so this feedback has been quite shocking to me. For whatever reason, people are really enjoying tearing my posts apart.
I’m planning on trying to stick with my blog for a long time to come, so I don’t want it to get abandoned. Please help me with feedback so that I can make the most of this experience.
I've been trying to talk about /qa/ as an entire community, but now I think the community is much too fragmented to described as such. The way I started this blog was with some really fantastic research that you should agree is really important to the community.
I've been considering going on the offensive lately. Do I have good reasons for being defensive, and is there any way that I can improve without seeming too biased?
The /qa/ coaltalogue has been a strange and wonderful experience. It has brought together people who are interested in the same thing: NAS coal. It seems many people are fascinated by coal. One man's gem is another man's coal, as Mutt Tzu would say.
I'm guessing my experience speaks to what others might be looking for. I'm one of those people that gather in random threads, rationally discussing, animatedly (maybe) discussing major and minor plans for eradicating the scourge of CO2, but NAS coal will always be a thing. But that doesn't mean we should embrace it. So I believe coal must be suppressed to a manageable level.
I'll try putting more thought into a possible long term solution, given the failure of the 5 boards plan - which I believe had been caused by the weakwilled jannies and the partial reversal. We can't just abandon every board except /soy/ and let coal-centric communities conquer them.