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The hero of Luke Rhinehart's "The Dice Man" made his decisions by rolling a dice. But most of us, for better or worse, are guided by our own tastes and opinions.
Of course you aren't wrong: there are likely millions of surfers who get an instant hard-on from content that does nothing for me. But how does that knowledge help me?
If I go to the majority of content providers and buy the latest sets or choose some at random, what kind of site am I likely to put together? It would be one which generates flickers of interest in lots of visitors, but probably not generate a strong enough interest in any to persuade them to buy.
I have two choices: go with my personal taste or try to get inside someone else's head and look at the content through their eyes. Either way I'm still making judgements with which many surfers won't agree.
The best I can do is select content I believe is right for a decent percentage and try to send the rest to something more likely to suit them. And precisely because, as you say, there are so many different people out there, even if my choices seemed totally off the wall to many, I could still make money.
As to commenting on content threads: shouldn't anyone who posts on a board, regardless of subject, expect knocks as well as praise? And if your reasoning is valid for negative comments, doesn't the same reason make positive comments valueless too?
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