In this one, it’s that there is no main body, just a gesture off-screen. Only a small minority of readers will be familiar enough with the funding apparatus to complete your “exercise to the reader...” Maybe you’re writing for that small minority, but it’s fair for the rest to get annoyed.
In past ones (from memory), it’s again this sense of pushing work onto the reader. Sense of “go work it out”.
I don’t have any advice to offer, but as a datapoint for you: I applaud your goal and am even sympathetic to many of your points, but even I found this post actively annoying (unlike your previous ones in this series). It feels like you’re writing a series of posts for your own benefit without actually engaging with your audience or interlocutors. I think this is fine for a personal blog, but does not fit on this forum.
In this one, it’s that there is no main body, just a gesture off-screen. Only a small minority of readers will be familiar enough with the funding apparatus to complete your “exercise to the reader...” Maybe you’re writing for that small minority, but it’s fair for the rest to get annoyed.
In past ones (from memory), it’s again this sense of pushing work onto the reader. Sense of “go work it out”.
Yes, I want people to think about this for themselves. (I don’t think that’s esoteric.)
I don’t have any advice to offer, but as a datapoint for you: I applaud your goal and am even sympathetic to many of your points, but even I found this post actively annoying (unlike your previous ones in this series). It feels like you’re writing a series of posts for your own benefit without actually engaging with your audience or interlocutors. I think this is fine for a personal blog, but does not fit on this forum.
Thank you for this feedback.
From my perspective, I’m writing both for my own sake and for others.
Even if your intentions are good surely it should be clear at this point that your approach is proving completely ineffective?