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I got dizzy reading the response from the CA, such a long email. Thankfully, there were people picking it apart in the responses.
by dikei 4y ago
I got dizzy reading the response from the CA, such a long email.
Thankfully, there were people picking it apart in the responses.
- tux3 4y agoI believe that's the intended effect. Sheer volume of misdirection, vague answers, and thinly veiled threats leaves people tired. Anyone might reasonably not have the energy to keep picking apart the nonsense from long evasive answers. Still, as pointed out in the email thread, a CA is also evaluated on how trustworthy they are in a broader sense than the baseline requirements. Uncertainty and doubt is great at making people dizzy and muddying the waters, but compared to other CAs who respond with openness and transparency, the contrast is striking.
- willcipriano 4y agoThe Gish gallop is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm their opponent by providing an excessive number of arguments with no regard for the accuracy or strength of those arguments. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
- Nicksil 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
- DonHopkins 4y agoGiddy up, Gish! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlRam1CtZI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlRam1CtZI
- yamtaddle 4y agoI was heartened by how many respondents were like, "yeah, even if the original concerns amount to nothing, the behavior here alone is enough to justify revocation, there's no place for that kind of evasiveness in this process"
- rob74 4y agoThat's a strategy often used by lawyers: bury the opposing party in stacks of paper, if only to buy some time...
- NovemberWhiskey 4y agoNot saying it's the case here ... but this kind of interaction can be difficult to distinguish from sealioning sometimes.