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If someone spoke of Google -without- disclosing that Google is their employer, and that was later found out, do you think that might change your view of their s
by lostcolony 4y ago
If someone spoke of Google -without- disclosing that Google is their employer, and that was later found out, do you think that might change your view of their statement?
To borrow your broken analogy and fix it, if someone were to post "Hey, here are all the reasons I'm voting for (candidate) and I think you should too", and didn't disclose that they work for that candidate's campaign, don't you think any credibility they might have had is gone once it's found out?
- gorgoiler 4y agoOpine or don’t opine. Disclose or don’t disclose. These are pretty hard options and missing the point. What I’m getting at is that opining, disclosing, but then claiming the opinions are unbiased just does not compute.
- scarface74 4y agoWho is claiming there opinions are unbiased? We are explicitly saying we probably are biased. It’s hard to be unbiased toward a company that is paying you over a quarter million dollars a year - I’m not claiming or not claiming that’s what I make (I’m not a “software engineer” by title), it’s just the typical compensation of even a mid level software engineer in tech in the US at one of the BigTech companies.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoI assume you mean it seems biased because it implies that the poster has different views to Google even if they actually have the exact same views as Google. I kind of get that, it implies a level of distance which may not actually be true. However I do think that's at least a bit uncharitable. But also there is a good point there.
- 8note 4y agoI'd generally still think it's their own opinion. Especially if it's critical
- Thorrez 4y agoWell if it's critical yeah I don't see a problem with leaving off the disclaimer. If it's positive, then leaving off the disclaimer is basically astroturfing.