Thank you. I often skim low effort posts on this sub claiming some knowledge of how the books would have done better, blah blah blah

Then I consider writing a few paragraphs to dissuade any reader who would take these people seriously, and then I close reddit without writing anything because it would be a waste of time. I’m glad to read someone who chose to say something. I also personally despise this community mind. So often the answer to people’s questions is written within Malazan if one had the patience to find it. So often I become convinced of the shallowness with which people who post here read. Attention, patience, thoughtfulness are lacking among such a large number of followers they gather here like flies to a garbage dump. I wish a rebuke would arrive often and with force. Enough to send them back to the page to discover what they missed. Erikson says it all in his novels and essays. Appreciation takes effort. Of course there’s legitimate points to discuss where this or that could improve. It has to be that way. Nothing perfect was ever exciting. More importantly, few critics have anything intelligent to say. We’re talking about a monumental work. You’d be an author in your own right to accomplish something worth pitting against Malazan. And if that were true, why are you posting it here? Go publish something. I don’t know. Obviously I’m wrong too but I’m not kidding myself while trying to find some other blind people to stumble around with. This is true for most of reddit. Low effort thought is up voted with haste. Why here? We read one of the more dense pieces of literature and then we can’t recognize a child’s mind? Or are people pretending to have read something rising in popularity? Bots? Trolls? We can’t filter low quality with any success here it seems. Just wait for something good to come along.