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I think many people failed to get the message of the author: it’s not a discouragement to blogging. The first list is more of your “inner voice” that tells you to stop/don’t even start writing.

For me personally it did help a bit, as I was thinking about writing my first blog post for a long time, and I also have been fighting with quite a lot of items on the first list. (Especially about the being considered dumb part). While I find the title a bit click-bait-y and that’s likely the reason why many didn’t read the whole thing/misunderstood, by critiquing I would just confirm one of the negative items, so let’s leave it that :D

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You completely got it right!

I have to admit the title is a little click-bait-y, but it's my blog and I do what I want ;)

Every time I've shared my posts with other people I've received critiques and comments of people telling that what I wrote is dumb. But I've also received a lot of comments of people with constructive comments and I've learnt a lot from them. And in my experience the good is much better than the bad. So I encourage you to go there and write your first post!! And please, share it with us once you finish it please :)

Thanks for the motivation!

Your blog post reads like a depression simulator, or rather, a simulation of the overly critical internal monologue and rumination of persons with depression

Is that a bad thing? That's just him maybe.

No not really, it was just an observation

>I think many people failed to get the message of the author

Consider the opposite: The author didn't properly communicate their intent to the audience. A blog is mostly if not entirely one way communication, and as such the understandability of it is the responsibility of the speaker, not the audience.

This can be learned from and fixed easily enough, but only if one correctly identifies the problem.

Sure, and it is fair to criticize it constructivel.

Nonetheless, we should try to look behind the exact content and discuss the topic at hand. I don't see much value in arguing against a straw man.

Let's be honest about the reality of the situation: Some internet commenters are lazy, careless, and dumb. (Yes, even and especially on HN.) It's difficult to help these people understand, because they don't want to understand; they want to be spoon-fed everything instead of thinking for themselves and putting in a little effort into reading.

The sentence immediately following the list of "cons" is quite literally "But all of these things are not a problem".

If a reader couldn't be bothered to read that far, I don't think I can place all blame on the author for not "properly" communicating their intent to the audience.

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