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I really do like Jeff Atwood, I think for the most part he has been beneficial to the community. But for the love of god, I wish he would stop making half of his post quotes from someone else's post. I don't mind that he gets an idea to write something based off of another person, but he could at least add something substantive to it.

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I see him as a sort of Reader's Digest of programming. Not sure if that's good, mind you.

Reader's Digest of programming is the perfect description!

I think his biggest service to the community is taking great ideas from lesser well-known sources and publicizing them. I've found so many classic essays and posts because he wrote about them. He pointed me to where I can dig deeper.

Also his high page rank makes his articles extremely easy to find.

I really do like HN, I think for the most part it has been beneficial to the community. But for the love of god, I wish half of the comments on Coding Horror submissions here would stop being the same old ad hominem attacks on Jeff's writing style. At least the HN community could add something substantive to Jeff's arguments.

ad hominem

Is it? If he had said "this writing style is bad because Jeff uses it", perhaps.

Ah, my bad.

I'd like to add that Jeff didn't always write this way, most his content was his own in the earlier days.

I'm not uber pissed or anything, I understand that he has a new kid and a new business to tend to and therefore his writing time has surely diminished. The word best used to describe my feelings towards his posts as of late is probably "disappointed". I'd rather see fewer, but higher quality posts.

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