If I have an active project I want it to be as good as possible. Certainly there’s been mean-spirited, low-quality criticism on the EA Forum before, but not a high proportion. If relatively valid criticism bothers the founder that much, their project is just probably not going to make it. Or they don’t really believe in their project (maybe for good reason, as pointed out by the critique).
I have run non-EA projects that have been criticized internally and externally. Why do you think it’s off? Criticism is just feedback + things that don’t matter, when you believe in what you’re doing. The EA world is rational enough to adjust its opinions properly in the fullness of time.
If I have an active project I want it to be as good as possible. Certainly there’s been mean-spirited, low-quality criticism on the EA Forum before, but not a high proportion. If relatively valid criticism bothers the founder that much, their project is just probably not going to make it. Or they don’t really believe in their project (maybe for good reason, as pointed out by the critique).
Have you run a public EA project before or spent time talking to founders of similar projects? This seems extremely off to me.
I have run non-EA projects that have been criticized internally and externally. Why do you think it’s off? Criticism is just feedback + things that don’t matter, when you believe in what you’re doing. The EA world is rational enough to adjust its opinions properly in the fullness of time.