14 Reasons List Posts Are Bad

Responding to a Twitter exchange this morning, Jay Canono lists “Fourteen reasons I hate list posts.”  Several of his reasons are valid.

The genre is popular for understandable reasons and they can in fact (contrary to objection #6) sometimes produce very interesting debates in the comments sections.  But the posts themselves are seldom very illuminating.

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