Comments on: Constructive v. Destructive Criticism. https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/ Wed, 12 May 2010 00:49:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518280 Wed, 12 May 2010 00:49:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518280 I knew somebody who knew Orson Welles. My friend was a staff member at a place that hired him regularly. SInce she was not important he treated her like shit.

]]> By: MrPeach https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518279 Tue, 11 May 2010 23:11:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518279 Hey, I like the negative approach – it’s much like my own view on the world. Personally I find it more honest.
OTOH, I’ll pass on both those movies, thanks.
I will, however, allocate time to read the biography I have on Orson Welles. Much positive and negative to be found there, I’m sure.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518278 Tue, 11 May 2010 11:41:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518278 The Daily WTF is brilliant. It’s like Fail blog for coders. But it isn’t all just coding, actually.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518277 Tue, 11 May 2010 11:38:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518277 MrPeach: Ha! That is a little like hearing a movie critic say “Porgies II -> Wow! I want to see it again, Citizen Kane -> Awful movie, should be colorized anyway”

]]> By: MrPeach https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518276 Tue, 11 May 2010 08:06:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518276 “You’re not helping” -> subscribed
“Almost Diamonds” -> not subscribed
Thanks Greg for the (second level) recommendation!

]]> By: melior https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518275 Tue, 11 May 2010 06:53:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518275 See also: User Interface Hall of Shame.

]]> By: melior https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518274 Tue, 11 May 2010 06:47:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518274 How do you build up a movement with destructive criticism?

It’s quite simple, if you’re not just being pedantic.

A good example is The Daily WTF, which for years has been helping to teach thousands of programmers what badly-written software looks like. Of course, it helps that the consequences are so often amusing, but it is actually an excellent way to demonstrate good practices by exposing real world examples of Fail. The criticism is always snarky, and the names are changed to protect the guilty. The comments are often as instructive as the posts as others pile on.

]]> By: Hank Fox https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518273 Mon, 10 May 2010 11:45:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518273 Re: YNH. I made a few comments there, and got some snarky replies back. It’s like the authors of the site have to reply to every single post. I went away thinking they were kind of dicks.

The issue I was replying to was their apparent need to leap into criticizing certain approaches to outspoken atheism.

I keep thinking that when society has had about a thousand years of freedom to be unbelievers, to balance the many thousands of years of draconian religiosity, THAT will be the time to take the pulse of the atheist movement and perhaps declare that some of us are misguided in our approach. UNTIL THEN, it’s way to early to declare You’re Not Helping.

They’re welcome to do what they do, no doubt. But … I lost interest in the site pretty fast.

]]> By: NewEnglandBob https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518272 Mon, 10 May 2010 11:14:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/10/constructive-v-destructive-cri/#comment-518272 I subscribed recently to YNH and I dislike much of what I see there.

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