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> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I don’t like when people use this without all the important context. Showing other quotes from the same person that is giving subjective advice on topics, lends to curiosity around how to filter their advice.

> It's is a complex and hard question, but the principles we apply to it have been around for a long time and are consistent with the site guidelines. If they weren't, we'd change the latter. > > I've explained all of this many times. If you, or anyone, would like to know how we approach the question, you could start here: > > https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373246

In my opinion, it's relevant to Card's credibility. If he shows poor judgement in one area, why would I want to listen to his opinion on something else, even something which is considered to be in his wheelhouse? Poor judgement is poor judgement.

Everyone shows poor judgement in one area.

It sucks that he has those ideas, but he's a good writer.

He's a popular writer, but hardly good. No one is going to be reading his books in 50 years, let alone 200.

That's an extremely high bar. But to the extent that critics and awards are the metric we have, he is an objectively good writer.

I don't know that you can establish objectively if someone is a good writer. He's an acclaimed, award-winning writer, sure.

Oh course it's a high bar! Why should anyone care about this work outside of the time of their release? It's modern culture but it ain't gonna be passed down anytime soon.

If the bar is that people will continue reading their books in 200 years, than which fiction writers of the last few decades would go into your list of "good"?

I don't know because you're asking me something that is impossible for a human that only lives to ~80 years.

Try asking better questions if you want better responses.

Take your best guess, obviously. The question is fine.

You're already confidently predicting a negative future for Ender's Game, so you're clearly not adverse to predictions.

The not-so-short story Ender's Game was great. The novel Ender's Game was awful. I hope someone told him it was too long, too repetitive, and too Gary Stu. I wish he had taken that feedback to heart.

The novella is the only version I've read. I came away both not understanding why a longer, novel-length version would exist, and with no interest in reading anything even slightly worse than that from the same author (which I'm given to understand describes most of his other work).

The novella was an alright time, though.

Everyone is very, very wrong about something. By your logic we should ignore everyone about everything.

This but unironically!

it did not make me wish to engage in political or ideological battle, i found it an interesting reflection of a complicated person's thought process. So, any battling is on you (you no doubt have a lot of company: "don't you dare feed us raw meat, we'll jump up and down in our cages and spill the poop buckets")

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