Foolhardy Ham Lint
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I recently had a conversation with a good friend of mine, who runs a small blog.
They post info from various competitions throughout the year, and sometimes, will attend events in person.
For the most part, they concentrate on elite skaters, because it is an area of personal interest, too.
However recently, they covered a local event where elite and recreational adult skaters were both present.
As they only had a limited amount of time away from their day job to attend and report, they were clear in their pre-event promotion what they would be covering, and therefore restricted their commentary to the elite skaters.
Some of the recreational skaters got upset that they were being ignored, and labelled my friend, 'exclusive and small minded'.
I guess the quandary my friend is facing, if recreational skaters want to be critiqued, is it fair to hold them to the same standard, and can they handle what is written about them, even if it isn't always ego-boosting and flattering?
For the record, my friend is the first to admit they can be pretty blunt.
They post info from various competitions throughout the year, and sometimes, will attend events in person.
For the most part, they concentrate on elite skaters, because it is an area of personal interest, too.
However recently, they covered a local event where elite and recreational adult skaters were both present.
As they only had a limited amount of time away from their day job to attend and report, they were clear in their pre-event promotion what they would be covering, and therefore restricted their commentary to the elite skaters.
Some of the recreational skaters got upset that they were being ignored, and labelled my friend, 'exclusive and small minded'.
I guess the quandary my friend is facing, if recreational skaters want to be critiqued, is it fair to hold them to the same standard, and can they handle what is written about them, even if it isn't always ego-boosting and flattering?
For the record, my friend is the first to admit they can be pretty blunt.
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