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The CEO of Ghost did not ever call his ex-customer an asshole, though.
by vntok 6y ago
The CEO of Ghost did not ever call his ex-customer an asshole, though.
- ColinWright 6y agoIn the quoted tweet in the submitted post the CEO says: > "Kicking a screaming on Twitter doesn't actually accomplish anything other than making you look like an asshole."
- vntok 6y agoExactly.
- gilrain 6y agoYou're playing semantics and it's making you look like a pedantic loser. I know you won't take offense to this, because I never called you a pedantic loser. Is this correct?
- vntok 6y agoIt is, especially in a legal framework, and it means I probably won't win if I sue you for writing that sentence. Do you have a point?
- OJFord 6y agoOk, my mistake. But nobody's suing anybody for calling anybody an asshole here. What I actually said: > Certainly don't start calling customers 'asshole's on the internet. is not materially changed if I had not missed the edit window and instead said 'do not start saying your customers look like assholes on the internet'. Basically just don't say 'asshole'.
- ColinWright 6y agoIn a legal context, the ruling is often on the basis of how "the average person" would interpret something, and not on the minutiae of what you think the exact semantics are. Given that, it's likely that "the average person" would interpret the CEO's remark as, to all intents and purposes, calling the OP an asshole. This is why (a) it's a gamble "going legal", because the interpretation the judges make might not be what you expect, and (b) nitpicking like this is unhelpful and unconstructive.