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Right but when people post about a new tech, they don't say "Tech's dirty little secret is out". This post is pretending ball tampering is a secret. What's the

Right but when people post about a new tech, they don't say "Tech's dirty little secret is out". This post is pretending ball tampering is a secret. What's the secret if it's been a thing forever and has always been public?

cryptoz 5y ago
> Right but when people post about a new tech, they don't say "Tech's dirty little secret is out". Sure they do, in droves: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Tech%27s+dirty+little+secret+is+out%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Tech%27s+dirty+little+sec... > What's the secret if it's been a thing forever and has always been public? I don't think the assumptions in your question are true. I'd wager that a _lot_ more people are talking about ball tampering now than ever before.
- void_mint 5y ago
  > Sure they do, in droves: And a post about "Tech's Dirty Little Secret" would be appropriately downvoted off the front page of this website. > I don't think the assumptions in your question are true. I'd wager that a _lot_ more people are talking about ball tampering now than ever before. How can it be a secret if "more people are talking about ball tampering than ever before"? Where's the secret?
  - cryptoz 5y ago
    The secret is out. That's the point. Not many people were talking about it before. The "secret". Now a lot of people are talking about it. The secret is now "out". There have been lots of highly-upvoted and heavily-commented "dirty secret is out" posts on HN's front page. I don't want to argue so I'll just leave it at that.
    - void_mint 5y ago
      > The secret is out. That's the point. Not many people were talking about it before. The "secret". Now a lot of people are talking about it. The secret is now "out". But that's what I'm saying. This has been talked to death. For years and years it has been talked about. Someone hearing about it for the first time does not make something a secret. > I don't want to argue so I'll just leave it at that. "I don't want to argue so I'll just argue and then say I don't want to argue" ? Anyway if ball tampering is a new thing to you, I hope you learned how terrible and problematic it is for the sport.

cryptoz 5y ago

> Right but when people post about a new tech, they don't say "Tech's dirty little secret is out". Sure they do, in droves: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Tech%27s+dirty+little+secret+is+out%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Tech%27s+dirty+little+sec... > What's the secret if it's been a thing forever and has always been public? I don't think the assumptions in your question are true. I'd wager that a _lot_ more people are talking about ball tampering now than ever before.

void_mint 5y ago
> Sure they do, in droves: And a post about "Tech's Dirty Little Secret" would be appropriately downvoted off the front page of this website. > I don't think the assumptions in your question are true. I'd wager that a _lot_ more people are talking about ball tampering now than ever before. How can it be a secret if "more people are talking about ball tampering than ever before"? Where's the secret?
- cryptoz 5y ago
  The secret is out. That's the point. Not many people were talking about it before. The "secret". Now a lot of people are talking about it. The secret is now "out". There have been lots of highly-upvoted and heavily-commented "dirty secret is out" posts on HN's front page. I don't want to argue so I'll just leave it at that.
  - void_mint 5y ago
    > The secret is out. That's the point. Not many people were talking about it before. The "secret". Now a lot of people are talking about it. The secret is now "out". But that's what I'm saying. This has been talked to death. For years and years it has been talked about. Someone hearing about it for the first time does not make something a secret. > I don't want to argue so I'll just leave it at that. "I don't want to argue so I'll just argue and then say I don't want to argue" ? Anyway if ball tampering is a new thing to you, I hope you learned how terrible and problematic it is for the sport.