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There's a related tangent here; Van Halen's "No Brown M&M's backstage!" clause in their venue contract. Here's one link: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/23

There's a related tangent here; Van Halen's "No Brown M&M's backstage!" clause in their venue contract. Here's one link: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232420 https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232420 Basically, if they found brown M&M's backstage, it meant that the venue organizers did not read their audio / stage setup requirements, and that everything needed to be examined with a fine toothed comb.

cupcake-unicorn 5y ago
Thanks for that, I was going to post it but saw you posted it already. I was on a science related blog recently and I saw someone misspelled an acronym so I emailed the author. In a huge plot twist the blog author let me know these were in there intentionally, and he'd often send the blog posts to the paper authors he was corresponding with and no one pointed it out yet! In a lot of the posts he's dealing with shady pharma shill scientists who are evading his science based questions so it is a pretty good middle finger to put these booby traps in as a way to guarantee they paid even less attention to it. I told him about the No Brown M&Ms story and he enjoyed that as well.
- toomanybeersies 5y ago
  > he'd often send the blog posts to the paper authors he was corresponding with and no one pointed it out yet That's not necessarily because they don't read his blog posts. There's every chance they read them and notice the misspelled acronym, but just assume it's a typo and don't mention it. It comes across as rude and petty to nitpick someone's critical writing by pointing out their typos.
  - cupcake-unicorn 5y ago
    I guess that's why I found it because I'm autistic and I don't agree with that conclusion, especially if someone has a science blog that's citing studies. There's a way to point out typos that's not rude or petty. The fact that people assume that intent or get offended by the intent without asking about my intent is the problem and why it sucks to be autistic a lot of the time.

cupcake-unicorn 5y ago

Thanks for that, I was going to post it but saw you posted it already. I was on a science related blog recently and I saw someone misspelled an acronym so I emailed the author. In a huge plot twist the blog author let me know these were in there intentionally, and he'd often send the blog posts to the paper authors he was corresponding with and no one pointed it out yet! In a lot of the posts he's dealing with shady pharma shill scientists who are evading his science based questions so it is a pretty good middle finger to put these booby traps in as a way to guarantee they paid even less attention to it. I told him about the No Brown M&Ms story and he enjoyed that as well.

toomanybeersies 5y ago
> he'd often send the blog posts to the paper authors he was corresponding with and no one pointed it out yet That's not necessarily because they don't read his blog posts. There's every chance they read them and notice the misspelled acronym, but just assume it's a typo and don't mention it. It comes across as rude and petty to nitpick someone's critical writing by pointing out their typos.
- cupcake-unicorn 5y ago
  I guess that's why I found it because I'm autistic and I don't agree with that conclusion, especially if someone has a science blog that's citing studies. There's a way to point out typos that's not rude or petty. The fact that people assume that intent or get offended by the intent without asking about my intent is the problem and why it sucks to be autistic a lot of the time.