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> I appreciate that you and others on this thread don't know me mwcampbell has also been active on HN itself for a pretty long time, and reading over his past
by danShumway 5y ago
> I appreciate that you and others on this thread don't know me
mwcampbell has also been active on HN itself for a pretty long time, and reading over his past comments should make it pretty obvious that:
A) he knows what he's talking about.
B) he is putting in a lot of effort to be reasonable and accommodating to other people and businesses.
C) he is personally contributing to and supporting efforts to build products and tools to make things better, not just complaining.
mwcambell's response above is very charitable, and I applaud that; it's good to reach out to people diplomatically. But personally, I also feel like it really wouldn't require that much work for skeptics to go over a few of his past posts and to see for themselves whether or not he is the type of person who would "use the buzzwords to throw the mob at [Cloudflare]."
None of mwcambell's past or present advocacy efforts are secretive, he is probably one of the most recognizable blind/vision-impared advocates on HN right now. I'll risk being slightly less charitable than he is being, and I'll say that people can put in the 5 minutes of effort it would take to figure out whether or not he's a good faith actor -- especially in the context of suggestions to him that the blind community should go out and build their own Cloudflare competitor.