Hmm. It can't be judged in the context of the poster's other previous and later words, because it can't be connected to their work under their more common name(s).
That can be a benefit when someone wants just that piece of writing judged on its own stand-alone merits, without readers being affected by their own knowledge of the writer's other work and views and personality. (That halo effect, where people tend to bump up their assessment of how well someone they like does everything and downgrade their opinions of the accomplishments of those they dislike.)
The downside of course being that readers don't go into it with the advance warning that the author is a known dumbass who's expressed some horrendous opinions in the past and who may have learned from the previous resulting dogpiles how to camouflage their own less acceptable thoughts on the matter. Or that they're known to be intelligent people with earned credibility on this topic and others, who may be inadvertently streamlining some of their arguments because they're used to everyone being so familiar with the ground they've already themself covered. Or that they earned a bad rep in their brash n00b days that they haven't been allowed to outgrow even though they've genuinely matured since then.
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Date: 2009-05-07 07:41 pm (UTC)That can be a benefit when someone wants just that piece of writing judged on its own stand-alone merits, without readers being affected by their own knowledge of the writer's other work and views and personality. (That halo effect, where people tend to bump up their assessment of how well someone they like does everything and downgrade their opinions of the accomplishments of those they dislike.)
The downside of course being that readers don't go into it with the advance warning that the author is a known dumbass who's expressed some horrendous opinions in the past and who may have learned from the previous resulting dogpiles how to camouflage their own less acceptable thoughts on the matter. Or that they're known to be intelligent people with earned credibility on this topic and others, who may be inadvertently streamlining some of their arguments because they're used to everyone being so familiar with the ground they've already themself covered. Or that they earned a bad rep in their brash n00b days that they haven't been allowed to outgrow even though they've genuinely matured since then.