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Let this be a lesson to all those people who were in the previous thread, trying to claim that this developer should just give an and rename their app, instead
by stale2002 6y ago
Let this be a lesson to all those people who were in the previous thread, trying to claim that this developer should just give an and rename their app, instead of starting a media incident.
The media blitz worked. Giving up would be bad advice. Making social media posts, that go viral, fixed the problem.
- DoofusOfDeath 6y agoThat advice was valid 99.9999% of the time prior to this outcome. Now it's valid 99.99985% of the time.
- stale2002 6y agoNo, it is really not valid. If you are able to successfully cause a large amount of PR damage to a company, then it is one of the most effective ways to get them to change their mind on something. PR damage is a big deal, and companies back down all the time, in situations like this, where they don't actually lose much by backing down. Maybe a couple won't back from some system wide policy, that is some large initiative of the company. But, if we are talking about a situation where some rando, singular app or user or whatever, gets blocked/banned/whatever, due to an ambiguous policy, likely made by a singular low level moderation employee? Yeah, absolutely a company could be willing to back down from such an insignificant decision, if the alternative is suffering bad PR.