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I had emailed him directly, excusing myself to have escalated to his direct email, writing a balanced, polite email asking for assistance, or at least confirmat
by kweks 8y ago
I had emailed him directly, excusing myself to have escalated to his direct email, writing a balanced, polite email asking for assistance, or at least confirmation of position.
Had no reply.
- bufferoverflow 8y agoWell, he is in charge of this system. Why would he reply? He knows exactly what they do and how shady it is.
- dang 8y agoThat crosses into personal attack, which is not ok here. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, you'll notice that the rules include Assume good faith.
- maccio92 8y agoWe can assume good faith, but when bad faith has been demonstrated we should not turn a blind eye
- dang 8y agoWhat people consider "demonstrated" depends greatly on how they feel about a thing. We're asking users to err on the side of assuming good faith. That's not easy, so if you're not making a strong conscious effort to do it, you're probably not following the guidelines. (I mean anybody, of course—not you personally.)
- bufferoverflow 8y agoWhat's the good faith scenario in this case? Even hypothetically? The CEO isn't aware of how the system (he is in charge of) works?
- dang 8y agoSure. I'm in charge of HN and I don't know how all its systems work. And there are plenty of other scenarios you could imagine if you wanted to assume good faith.
- bufferoverflow 8y agoSorry, I'm not buying that scenario. This is not some obscure internal system.
- dang 8y agoNevertheless, please assume good faith when commenting here. All our defaults point us in the opposite direction. It takes a conscious effort to counteract that, and the survival of this community depends on it.