I wonder how much of the sharp dip in my interest in actually executing my blog post ideas (which are about as good/bad as they've always been) is due to a "do I really want the aggravation of whatever toxicity this will attract? I've been thinking of it as a sulk/funk/block
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I've been tempted by the idea of writing only inside walled gardens, with vetted readership, and in practice have been doing that to some extent (email, slack, 1:1s...), but there is no way to gate keep at scale. If you attract > ~100 readers, at least 1-2 will be taxing jerks
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Writing in public has been a part of my identity for so long though (first paid for a piece of writing in like 1988 for a high school essay contest, so 30y ago) that the idea of giving it up or boxing in/limiting that side of my life feels very strange and ghostly.
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Could just have a short “application” / vet the LinkedIn/Twitter or whatever. Could even outsource the vetting + strict banning mechanisms
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Charge a small amount of money for access to new posts. Post them publicly with comments disabled a month later
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technologically enabled tragedy of the commons: trolls suck up all the air in the metaphorical room
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