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Why didn't you use the closing of the article "MICROSOFT KILLS OFF INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE VENDORS BY FOISTING ITS PRODUCTS ON USERS THAT ARE IN NO WAY BETTER" the
by yAnonymous 10y ago
Why didn't you use the closing of the article "MICROSOFT KILLS OFF INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE VENDORS BY FOISTING ITS PRODUCTS ON USERS THAT ARE IN NO WAY BETTER" then, which happens to be bigger and bolder than the quote you chose and represents the tone of the article a lot better?
Instead, you replaced it with the most positive line you could find until users complained.
You do this time and time again and it smells like bullshit.
- dang 10y agoThat won't fit in 80 chars, so we had to edit it. We also edit superlative language and outrage language out of titles. This is all tediously routine. Actually the current title is more indignant than we'd usually allow ("kills off", "foisting"), so this case is actually a counterexample to what you say. > You do this time and time again and it smells like bullshit. This is a sample bias. People notice the cases they dislike and fail to notice the ones they don't, thus weighting their sample. The more strongly you feel, the more this effect will skew your view. No doubt we do have biases—though I'd be flabbergasted if the one you're accusing us of were among them—but given how hard we work to be neutral, and how powerful this sample-weighting dynamic is, moderator bias is a poor explanation here. It's like a programmer being too quick to blame the compiler.