Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: ... > Speaking of reddit, I noticed there are forty-something negative votes > but only one negative comment. From direct experience (sigh) I know that > people who think an article sucks usually are also very inclined to > voice their opinion (even more so than people who think an article was > good!) There must be a study in behavioral psych somewhere. So these > votes seem to reflect a prior dislike to anything D and the immediate > negative voting of anything related to it. I wonder how such this could > be addressed. > > > Andrei.
Somebody at work put up a poster, I believe it was from Red Hat linux, with a famous Gandhi quote: "first they ignore you, then they fight you, then you win..." Probably normal part of the process, I think it's best to avoid being defensive and continue business as usual :) I *really* liked your article, it's nice to read such an well written piece with unreserved enthousiasm and passion about D.
