{"id":26103,"date":"2007-07-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/07\/09\/its-not-enough-to-say-that-something-is-bad-you-have-to-say-what-would-be-better\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T10:00:00","slug":"its-not-enough-to-say-that-something-is-bad-you-have-to-say-what-would-be-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070709-00\/?p=26103","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s not enough to say that something is bad; you have to say what would be better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see a lot of feedback that says (roughly), &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/10\/23\/862750.aspx#896265%0A\">X&nbsp;is bad<\/a>,&#8221; and leaves it at that. That&#8217;s not useful feedback.\n It&#8217;s not enough to say that something is bad. you have to say what would be better.<\/p>\n<p> (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/01\/02\/1399230.aspx#1399903\">Another example<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/04\/02\/2008357.aspx#2013060%0A\"> Another<\/a>.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see a lot of feedback that says (roughly), &#8220;X&nbsp;is bad,&#8221; and leaves it at that. That&#8217;s not useful feedback. It&#8217;s not enough to say that something is bad. you have to say what would be better. (Another example. Another.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-26103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I see a lot of feedback that says (roughly), &#8220;X&nbsp;is bad,&#8221; and leaves it at that. That&#8217;s not useful feedback. It&#8217;s not enough to say that something is bad. you have to say what would be better. (Another example. Another.)<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}