Why Creators Should Never Read Their Forums 221
spidweb writes "One full-time Indie developer writes about why he never goes to online forums discussing his work and why he advises other creators to do the same. It's possible to learn valuable things, but the time and the stress just don't justify the effort. From the article, 'Forums contain a cacophony of people telling you to do diametrically opposite things, very loudly, often for bad reasons. There will be plenty of good ideas, but picking them out from the bad ones is unreliable and a lot of work. If you try to make too many people happy at once, you will drive yourself mad. You have to be very, very careful who you let into your head.'"
Obligatory reference to /. (Score:5, Funny)
Whaddaya mean, creators? (Score:5, Funny)
Nobody who retains any semblance of sanity and wishes to keep that should ever engage in online discussion. It's usually pointless, annoys people and yourself to no end and you seldom feel you've accomplished anything.
Now if only I had realised this before starting to develop this god-damned need to add my two cents whenever someone is wrong on the internet...
Just make it open source.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obligatory reference to /. (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdot has actual editors? Since when? (And no the people purporting to be "editors" is not the same thing).