Re:Curated list of personal blogs
by solarengineer on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:30PM
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You could consider adding the sentence to your blog post: “I have written the above based on my present understanding, experience and maturity. As these improve over time, hopefully my opinions would improve too!”
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It would be harmful to add such a disclaimer. It would not assuage those who would take offense and it would hurt reader trust.
All writing is from a present understanding.
If all writing is from a present understanding, how could it hurt reader trust to acknowledge that explicitly?
Re:Curated list of personal blogs
by crocodiletears on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:10PM
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I would expect the following kind of writers to use that that disclaimer:
* The writer expresses poorly considered opinions, loosely holds them. They won't bother defending them.
* The writer expresses anodyne opinions that might one day become controversial, they won't bother holding onto them when the rest of society moves on from them.
In both cases, I wouldn't bother reading what they had to say. I could open the opinion section of any newspaper to get the same content with twice the conviction.
Nothing wrong with hedging your opinions in-text. But if you're hedging everything you say before you've even bothered to say it, you either have nothing interesting to say or probably censor yourself enough already.
Interesting. It sounds like we value very different kinds of writing.
Re:Curated list of personal blogs
by FalconSensei on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:59PM
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considering people pick tweets from 10 years ago out-of-context (and out of the thread they are part of), I don't see much benefit
Re:Curated list of personal blogs
by bencollier49 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:57PM
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That sounds like something from a struggle session, just written preemptively.