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New's bogus insinuation that Non had ads or spyware makes me disinclined to buy this innocent justification.
by dogorman 5y ago
New's bogus insinuation that Non had ads or spyware makes me disinclined to buy this innocent justification.
- bhaney 5y agoThis seems like a very reasonable comment and I had exactly the same thought, yet I found this comment dead and had to vouch for it. Can any of the downvoters explain why? Or was this somehow automatic?
- oefrha 5y agoSome new accounts are automatically dead on arrival or if they post too quickly, and have to be vouched. Nothing sinister about it.
- bhaney 5y agoDidn't mean to imply sinisterness. Was wondering if an automatic process like that existed, so thanks for the confirmation.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- fundamental 5y agoIIRC (anyone else in LAD-proper correct me) the insinuation came from using some standard boilerplate in a release announcement for the fork. The fork's release tagline outlined what open source was and how it is beneficial to users. Specifically there was mention of the fork not having any spyware/ads in it. I agree with the posted article that saying "X doesn't have Y" from the fork implies that it is a differentiating factor, but it doesn't strike me as an intentionally malicious act. More of just not being familiar how such release blurbs would be read when applied to a forked project.