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Re:The List of N Things by billswift on Monday September 07, 2009 @06:28PM (#809879)
"The list of n things similarly limits the damage that can be done by a bad writer."

I have more things I want to do than I have time to do them; why in the world would I waste time reading something if I expected it to be by a bad writer? I have quit reading writers before when I came across strong evidence of bias or incompetence in their writings.

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Re:The List of N Things by whatusername on Monday September 07, 2009 @08:28PM (#809993)
A bad writer does not bad ideas make!
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Re:The List of N Things by billswift on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @02:18AM (#810394)
Not necessarily, but the converse IS true, bad ideas make a bad writer no matter how easy to read or entertaining he may be.
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