RE: If EVERYTHING is Amazing, then NOTHING is Amazing!
Ronni's reply says what I had on my mind about this.
I'd like to add, that I think there is not a lot you can do about it. Only being honest yourself.
I believe it has a lot to do with group think also. To name a real life example.
I saw a post in which was shown a beech tree, and the hull's of the nuts of the beech, and the leaves of the beech. But the author, probably mistakenly, had written the text that it was an oak with hulls of an acorn and leaves of an oak and so on. Every reply was, that they liked the post. It makes me wonder, did those people really not know that it was a beech instead of an oak?
I made a reply in which I, as secretly as possible, let the author know it was an oak.
I see more post from which I really wonder if it's is just a true lack of knowledge of all the replying people. Or that it is that no one wants to say something. It is hard to say.
If I make a mistake in my post I rather have a reply of someone telling me, where I made a mayor mistake. Of course not every small typo, but even if someone would point out a typo, that would help me become better.
Edit; This is just a small aspect, and I could write a much longer reply on various perspectives on this, but I think it would be to long and I might even be advocate for two contradicting perspectives in the end. lol. To name one complicated subject, art ;)
I understand @wordsword-- sometimes it's easy to get to the point of writing an entire essay in response to a post. Which actually makes me happy, because it means there was something there worth thinking about.
When it comes to posts (or blogs, and articles) a lot of responses also tell me that people didn't actually READ what was there... they just reacted to the title and started writing our their opinion... whether right or wrong.
Some weeks (months?) back, I wrote a piece about being a skeptic, and how it often can get you labeled as a "downer" or "buzzkill." Not agreeing with a majority view... AND having evidence to back it up... can often get you into a tricky spot... for many people it can be more important to "BE" right than whether something "IS" (factually) right.
Things like art, music, creative expression become really tricky areas because then you also have to deal with people's "ego investment" in their creations. Someone (evidently) puts their heart and soul into something that looks to ME like my dog vomited on a piece of paper... and everyone is calling it "artistic genius." At BEST my feedback would be "That's certainly very unusual, and quite unlike anything I've ever seen before." Which is certainly truthful.