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Not all diaries here are the dissemination of knowledge/opinion, they can also be requests for knowledge. You'll find quite a few headlines have a question mark at the end of them.
Feedback is important, of course. It is only human nature that one's time spent here, whether creating a diary, or on an exchange of comments, is appreciated. The one thing we never really know is how many people actually read without making their presence known. There is nothing wrong with lurking - today's lurker may be tomorrow's diarist ;-)
It can be daunting that ETers are not afraid to disagree - but I have never seen it happen except to regulars.
So get started! You can't be me, I'm taken
The disagreements here are unusual, though, in that one often learns something from them about the topic, rather than (as at many blogs) learning about prevalent reading skills, levels of knowledge, and human nature. ---------------
Which prompts a side comment --
It is perhaps not fully appreciated that the following pattern makes comment threads deceptive as statistical pictures of the blog's readership, or even of the writership. The following facts are painfully obvious:
Conclusion: The blogosphere community is much more sensible and agreeable it seems, so there is more hope for the world than we perceive, and everyone should cheer up, at least incrementally. Words and ideas I offer here may be used freely and without attribution.
(We love to be contrarians here on ET) In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
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