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Do you have any evidence of these more mundane reasons? Otherwise, you're just speculating. And since Bray did a very good job of linking to sources for his sta

Do you have any evidence of these more mundane reasons? Otherwise, you're just speculating. And since Bray did a very good job of linking to sources for his stated reasons, I'm inclined to take his claims seriously at least until other evidence indicates otherwise. (On the other hand, I highly suspect that you yourself have "other" reasons to cast doubt on Bray's claims. I have as much reason to doubt your motives as you do to doubt Bray's, right?)

kjgkjhfkjf 6y ago
Is it not clear that I was speculating from language like "my guess is", and is it not clear that I'm not trying to cast aspersions on Tim's specific motives from language like "I don't mean to rag specifically on Tim"?
- WolfeReader 6y ago
  All of your uses of "he" were referring to Bray himself. That's how pronouns work. And you can say "guess" all you want. There was nothing in his post, or any other article I know of, that indicates Bray's motives were anything other than what he said (and backed up with extensive supporting evidence). So your motivation to "guess" doesn't come from the article itself, nor from any competing evidence (which I doubt exists since you would've already posted it). "I don't mean to specifically call out kjgkjhfkjf, but my guess is that he feels compelled to downplay legitimate criticisms of Amazon, and he used the well-known techniques of ad-hominem and FUD as a means to defend Amazon without actual compelling counterarguments." <- I assume you agree with that sentence, since it uses all of your same rhetorical techniques.
  - kjgkjhfkjf 6y ago
    No, you have misunderstood me. My point was that grandstanding posts from people who have recently left desirable positions should generally not be taken at face value. I was not arguing that his claims about Amazon's policies are questionable. This should be evident from my use of the language "well-known issues" in my original comment.

kjgkjhfkjf 6y ago

Is it not clear that I was speculating from language like "my guess is", and is it not clear that I'm not trying to cast aspersions on Tim's specific motives from language like "I don't mean to rag specifically on Tim"?

WolfeReader 6y ago
All of your uses of "he" were referring to Bray himself. That's how pronouns work. And you can say "guess" all you want. There was nothing in his post, or any other article I know of, that indicates Bray's motives were anything other than what he said (and backed up with extensive supporting evidence). So your motivation to "guess" doesn't come from the article itself, nor from any competing evidence (which I doubt exists since you would've already posted it). "I don't mean to specifically call out kjgkjhfkjf, but my guess is that he feels compelled to downplay legitimate criticisms of Amazon, and he used the well-known techniques of ad-hominem and FUD as a means to defend Amazon without actual compelling counterarguments." <- I assume you agree with that sentence, since it uses all of your same rhetorical techniques.
- kjgkjhfkjf 6y ago
  No, you have misunderstood me. My point was that grandstanding posts from people who have recently left desirable positions should generally not be taken at face value. I was not arguing that his claims about Amazon's policies are questionable. This should be evident from my use of the language "well-known issues" in my original comment.