No, it's the readers at fault, not the writer

Posted Aug 5, 2009 0:05 UTC (Wed) by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
In reply to: FUD? by corbet
Parent article: CentOS turbulence and enterprise Linux tradeoffs

You can only dumb things down so far before throwing up your hands in disgust. You don't dumb things down at all and that is the joy of LWN. These fools come here expecting a dumbed down site where they can add dumb comments, and you scare them. They are used to being kings of scum ponds and here is crystal clear Colorado spring water, and the only response they can come up with is to piss in it so it looks familiar.

Don't you dare dumb things down :-)

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No, it's the readers at fault, not the writer

Posted Aug 5, 2009 2:35 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

Perhaps I have touched a couple of sensitive toes, but I also really hesitate at calling LWN subscribers "dumb." The joy of writing for this readership is that you all are anything but that. There's been enough unhappiness about this article that I don't think I can write it off as reader dumbness, unfortunately. I don't plan to dumb things down by any stretch, but it's worth trying to understand what happens when I go wrong.

That said, I still don't understand what constitutes "FUD" in this article...

No, it's the readers at fault, not the writer

Posted Aug 6, 2009 14:47 UTC (Thu) by liljencrantz (guest, #28458) [Link]

I find your attitude laudable. I don't find the reporting in this particular article biased or inaccurate, but I am not that informed on the subject, so I wouldn't really know. But your willingness to accept errors on your will definitely help keep you accurate and respected in the future.