Comment by bayindirh
11 hours ago
> Sorry, what's the point of this blog?
Being a blog the way the author dreamed of it.
> I hope people would write a quick abstract/summary in the first few lines and then go on elaborating.
I hope people continue doing what makes them happy. It's their site, they owe nothing to anyone (maybe except hosting / network fees, but that's not my business, either).
> Or at least put that summary at the end, in old-fashioned way.
Or maybe people can spend a couple of minutes to read and understand it, with the MSI (MeatSpaceIntelligence) which comes bundled with all human beings.
It's free, too!
Maybe, maybe .. you get some pleasure in forcing people to read every bit of what you write, just to get what the heck it is. But unfortunately it is the age of AI summaries and short attention spans. Not the times when you read half-foot thick novels end-to-end multiple times. TL;DR!
I write my digital garden and blog for myself. They are just happen to be public. The pleasurable part is putting it out there, not forcing people to read it.
If people prefer to have short attention spans and leave what I put out after 30 seconds, it's their own choice. My blog has minimal analytics (provided by the platform), and digital garden has no analytics whatsoever, so I don't care and get bothered what humans do with my site.
I personally don't use any AI tools whatsoever, and still prefer to read half-foot thick novels end-to-end. Hyperion Cantos (4 x 700 pages) was great. My next target is Foundation by Asimov (7 volumes incl. expansions).
My gripe was actually only about the post, not about the blog. Sorry for not being specific. But if you read my comment closely you would have realized that I was commenting only on the post. I mention this because it goes to show what kind of animals we became to be - we don't read fully, we don't try to understand what's behind some text. We simply don't have time.
Also, your blog didn't just "happen" to be public. You posted about it on HN and you are curious about the HN comments on your post. This means you want people to read and comment on your stuff. There is no point in pretending that it's just for your own consumption. If you don't want people to say what they feel about your content, don't post it here. It is like looking into mirror and asking it not to show things you don't like. You need to come to accept the feedback, since you asked for it.
You can down vote me to ground. But you need to realize that this is HN, the feedback garden. And it did not happen to be that way. It is intentional.