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> Much as I'd love to, it's not my place to say why the original title was inaccurate, so I'll just remind you all that there are two or more sides to every sto

> Much as I'd love to, it's not my place to say why the original title was inaccurate, so I'll just remind you all that there are two or more sides to every story and not everything on Twitter is true. This reads a bit like "not to be that guy, but...". You won't say why for some reason, but clearly it's not to stay out of it because you're letting innuendo do the job. Alternative suggestion: "That is inaccurate but it's not my place to elaborate." It would still express the point but avoid reinforcing the circle the wagons/"blue wall of silence"ness of this situation.

dang 5y ago
I don't see that alternative formulation as so different really? I'm sure you have a good point, I'm just not sure how to do it better. I needed to give enough of an explanation to satisfy people's curiosity at least a little bit even though I can't satisfy it for real. I also needed to make sure that my comment had enough information in it to answer (let's say) the top 10 obvious objections, or it would have brought a flood of them down on my head.
- serf 5y ago
  >not everything on Twitter is true >I'm sure you have a good point. I'm just not sure how to do it better. Probably without the allusion that the tweeter isn't telling the truth, to be blunt.
  - dang 5y ago
    To say that the submitted title was inaccurate is already to say that.
    - geekone 5y ago
      I don't think the inaccurate title has much to do with the added color that the tweet could be a lie
- Judgmentality 5y ago
  I think you are unwittingly coloring your words, likely because you are frustrated by this post (it's petty drama you want to downvote but policy says you can't, and you have inside information you can't share). This is like subtle apophasis, where you're implying that the tweeter (wow that sounds so weird) is on the wrong side. I'm not taking sides here, despite being a YC alum (alternate account) I stopped looking at the forum forever ago and had not even heard about this nor do I care, honestly I just thought it'd be fun to read some drama on HN since it's so rare here. I think enough other people are commenting on this to suggest it's not just me. I think you mean well, but none of us are unbiased. It seems like a no-win situation though. So it goes.
  - dang 5y ago
    Unwittingly? That's fightin words.
    - random314 5y ago
      Please adhere to hacker news guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
      - dang 5y ago
        Sorry! I meant it in a nice way, though of course that may not have come across.
- alisonkisk 5y ago
  You can't satisfy the people who don't want to be satisfied.
austincheney 5y ago
This is all petty personal drama that shouldn’t be a thread in the first place. Being concerned due to unspecified assumptions is less than wonderful.

dang 5y ago

I don't see that alternative formulation as so different really? I'm sure you have a good point, I'm just not sure how to do it better. I needed to give enough of an explanation to satisfy people's curiosity at least a little bit even though I can't satisfy it for real. I also needed to make sure that my comment had enough information in it to answer (let's say) the top 10 obvious objections, or it would have brought a flood of them down on my head.

serf 5y ago
>not everything on Twitter is true >I'm sure you have a good point. I'm just not sure how to do it better. Probably without the allusion that the tweeter isn't telling the truth, to be blunt.
- dang 5y ago
  To say that the submitted title was inaccurate is already to say that.
  - geekone 5y ago
    I don't think the inaccurate title has much to do with the added color that the tweet could be a lie
Judgmentality 5y ago
I think you are unwittingly coloring your words, likely because you are frustrated by this post (it's petty drama you want to downvote but policy says you can't, and you have inside information you can't share). This is like subtle apophasis, where you're implying that the tweeter (wow that sounds so weird) is on the wrong side. I'm not taking sides here, despite being a YC alum (alternate account) I stopped looking at the forum forever ago and had not even heard about this nor do I care, honestly I just thought it'd be fun to read some drama on HN since it's so rare here. I think enough other people are commenting on this to suggest it's not just me. I think you mean well, but none of us are unbiased. It seems like a no-win situation though. So it goes.
- dang 5y ago
  Unwittingly? That's fightin words.
  - random314 5y ago
    Please adhere to hacker news guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - dang 5y ago
      Sorry! I meant it in a nice way, though of course that may not have come across.
alisonkisk 5y ago
You can't satisfy the people who don't want to be satisfied.

austincheney 5y ago

This is all petty personal drama that shouldn’t be a thread in the first place. Being concerned due to unspecified assumptions is less than wonderful.