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> HackerOne is proud to announce that hackers have earned $100 Million in bug bounties by hacking for good on our platform. (Tangent) Can anyone recommend a co
by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
> HackerOne is proud to announce that hackers have earned $100 Million in bug bounties by hacking for good on our platform.
(Tangent) Can anyone recommend a coherent interpretation of that statement?
I know what it means for an individual person to be proud. And I could see an argument for extending that notion to a group of persons if every person in the organization was proud.
But I assume HackerOne has had employees / members come and go over time. And I also assume that some of the past or current members don't share that feeling of pride for this particular milestone.
So the only interpretation I can think of is that the person writing the PR was being sleazily vague. I.e., trying to get the audience to take a sentiment that's only meaningfully applied to individual humans / animals, and getting them to unwittingly apply it to a brand name instead.
Is there a better explanation that eludes me?
- qeternity 6y agoNot really sure what you’re getting at here. Without getting into the boilerplate cooperate “we’re helping the world”, it’s a perfectly coherent sentence.
- Talanes 6y agoExpressing sentiment on behalf of collectives isn't a new idea from a PR writer, it's an ancient figure of communication.
- antonvs 6y agoIdiomatic English might be eluding you.