# Specialist Creators with Small Audiences

**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/specialist-creators-with-small-audiences/580
**Category:** Elliot Temple
**Tags:** discussion-methodology, curiosity-blog
**Created:** [May 13, 2022, 5:44pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/specialist-creators-with-small-audiences/580 "2022-05-13T17:44:33Z")
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### Author: ![Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/elliot/32/14_2.png) [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/specialist-creators-with-small-audiences/580/55 "2026-04-29T16:09:05Z")

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> [@Oracle](#):
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> if respectful criticism about forum dynamics is reclassified as negativity

The examples I quoted weren’t respectful or constructive. Let’s look at one of them:

Previously:

> [@Oracle](#):
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> it’s harder to have a productive back and forth with you than it usually is with people i discuss ideas with or even just people in general.

Now:

> [@Oracle](#):
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> i wasn’t presenting a concluded verdict from a finished debate. i was giving early diagnostic feedback about a possible forum failure mode.

You basically called me below average, at some philosophy skills, compared to the general population’s average. You explicitly weren’t just comparing to an above average group like your social circle, Reddit users or intellectuals. That doesn’t make sense as early diagnostic feedback because it’s extremely negative. You should be more charitable when you first see a potential problem. It’s the kind of conclusion you get after lowering your opinion several times, but that conflicts with the early feedback claim.

It’s also unhelpful as feedback given the lack of quotes, examples, specifics, reasons, suggestions, etc. It’s not actionable or refutable. Early feedback is normally posted directly in response to one of the first few problems. The lack of specifics is more typical of late feedback where one is going by memory about multiple past issues.

Another way it’s late: you had already posted ~90 times and said positive things that led me to believe you considered our discussions productive.

You also appeared to save up multiple grievances and share them simultaneously, which is not how early feedback works.

> [@Oracle](#):
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> i do have other communities with people much further along in their fields

What do you mean by “much further along in their fields”?

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