increasingly noticing that when my friends say “i keep getting this negative insane feedback from other people” i used to default to assuming they know that the feedback is insane
but seems more like a part of them doesn’t and i do actually need to say “this feedback is insane”
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yud wrote this thing once i won’t be able to find about how sane discourse requires 4 layers of feedback: people say things, people give feedback on those things, feedback on the feedback, feedback on the feedback on the feedback
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i don’t remember why 4 and not 3 but 3 is a lot better than 2. the structure of the internet broadly and twitter specifically privileges the 2nd layer of feedback i think. lets bad feedback run rampant
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anyway and in case you were wondering this is specifically a subtweet of both of you, don’t let the haters get u down 💪
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one time i got a lot of disheartening weird feedback during a poetry workshop that i didnt know how to integrate into my writing, so i went to my professor's office hours, explained my poem and the feedback, and he was like "they're straight-up wrong, that's bad feedback"
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it was a really powerful moment. glad to see you spreading the good word :+)
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When you meet an asshole on the street, they're probably an asshole. If everyone you meet on the street is an asshole, you might be the asshole.
The internet subverts this heuristic pretty badly, esp in large enough populations.
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yeah, feedback can vary enormously on the quality axis. *And* even when it's high-quality it may not match the expectations of the receiver (e.g. harsh constructive criticism when all you need is motivational praise)
feedback is hard
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