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Valuable morsel: Ctrl-F "ergobiblio" and just keep reading his replies. They're the only ones worth bothering with. Useless opinion: Not to throw in my lot wit
by mattdeboard 15y ago
Valuable morsel: Ctrl-F "ergobiblio" and just keep reading his replies. They're the only ones worth bothering with.
Useless opinion: Not to throw in my lot with the most downvoted (and barely visible) of comments here, but seriously, these "Ask us anything about our product!" AMAs from big companies are uniformly marketing chaff. Total yawnfest since no one dares answer challenging questions for fear of running afoul of their legal team (or, in fact, the legal system down the road when their words can be used against the company).
This rigidness makes this sort of "community outreach" exceedingly boring. In my terrible, stupid opinion, companies worth asking questions of never have time to get a bunch of managers, a PR/marketing person and a single engineer together to answer only the most sycophantic or safe questions (again, I don't blame them for being concerned with self protection).
Give me email responses from Gabe Newell to completely random gamers any day over this sort of canned interaction.
- jedc 15y agoI mentioned this down-thread, too, but while it might not be terribly useful for any of us directly, the feedback the Docs team gets from users could be very valuable when it comes to prioritizing development of new features. So you could think of it as marketing chaff, or think of it as a product team listening to their users. I'm an optimist so I choose the latter. :)