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I'm missing the logic here. If few people make a mistake, they should be informed privately, but if many people make a mistake, they should be shamed publicly?

I'm missing the logic here. If few people make a mistake, they should be informed privately, but if many people make a mistake, they should be shamed publicly? No. And to be honest, I'm getting slightly tired of the community's tendency to stretch metaphors way beyond their applicability. Mine was mostly meant to add a touch of humor. Pants, flies, and underwear aside, auto-hijacking the Twitter accounts of everyone on your network is just dickish (no pun intended). Especially when the belt store is closed to everyone except the pants-manufacturers ;)

btilly 16y ago
Random public shaming may not be fair, but it is a fast way to get the message out to lots of people. And I've seen it be an effective way to drive behavior change.
jontywareing 16y ago
I do not think this can really be considered "shaming" as it's nothing to be embarrassed about. Regarding private/public notification; Posting to your own account is an easily understandable visible demonstration of what's possible and why you should care - a DM from another account, or an @ just won't have the same effect on the user. (I have said this elsewhere in the thread, so apologies for repetition) I have been informed that it's possible to send a DM to yourself, so I'll add that as an option shortly as a nice alternative.
- ChRoss 16y ago
  I understand the intention is to warn people. But IMO, there are plenty ways of warning or educating them, e.g. blogs, tweets etc. There's no need to 'prove' it just to make awareness. I did tell my friends and family that a tool (Firesheep) has been released and what is the impact in layman language, and inform them to be careful when browsing through open wifi networks.
regularfry 16y ago
Metaphors are less effort to bike-shed than the underlying concept. Witness the undying car analogy, or the "C is a hammer" nonsense from a couple of days ago. Yes, it's boring; yes, it's intellectually lazy and useless. No, it's not going away.

btilly 16y ago

Random public shaming may not be fair, but it is a fast way to get the message out to lots of people. And I've seen it be an effective way to drive behavior change.

jontywareing 16y ago

I do not think this can really be considered "shaming" as it's nothing to be embarrassed about. Regarding private/public notification; Posting to your own account is an easily understandable visible demonstration of what's possible and why you should care - a DM from another account, or an @ just won't have the same effect on the user. (I have said this elsewhere in the thread, so apologies for repetition) I have been informed that it's possible to send a DM to yourself, so I'll add that as an option shortly as a nice alternative.

ChRoss 16y ago
I understand the intention is to warn people. But IMO, there are plenty ways of warning or educating them, e.g. blogs, tweets etc. There's no need to 'prove' it just to make awareness. I did tell my friends and family that a tool (Firesheep) has been released and what is the impact in layman language, and inform them to be careful when browsing through open wifi networks.

regularfry 16y ago

Metaphors are less effort to bike-shed than the underlying concept. Witness the undying car analogy, or the "C is a hammer" nonsense from a couple of days ago. Yes, it's boring; yes, it's intellectually lazy and useless. No, it's not going away.