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These kinds of threads are always so hard to decipher. Without disclosing the terms and details MIT is allegedly providing, you just have to assume the one side

These kinds of threads are always so hard to decipher. Without disclosing the terms and details MIT is allegedly providing, you just have to assume the one side complaining is telling the truth when there's almost certainly two sides to this problem. That said, don't get me wrong, I'm always down for a quick pitch fork roast on the internet.

bsder 4y ago
Normally when things have reached the "Air it in public" level of greivance, what is being put out in public is at least factual--just probably not all of the facts. However, I can quite easily see this happening on the MIT side. Some mid-level bureaucrat who doesn't even know what W3C is will be losing budget, so they're playing hardball assuming the usual level of scrutiny. They're going to get a surprise when they get dumped on by their managers because this suddenly hit a lot of eyeballs and is garnering negative PR for the entire university.
ineedasername 4y ago
That’s partly because twitter is just about the worst possible place to have a detailed conversation on an issue, really just about any issue. I have no idea why anyone of any level of technical sophistication or containing halfway decent communication skills makes the attempt. Choose a free blog, write something more substantive, and write a succinct Twitter post to get people aware of it. Or at least do that at the same time you post a balkanized “thread” like the author here and link to the more substantive post in the process.
- mattl 4y ago
  People aren’t reading random blogs as much as they’re reading social media
  - theshrike79 4y ago
    Thus: link to random blog from social media.
    - mattl 4y ago
      People don’t click as much either.
      - ineedasername 4y ago
        Then it’s better to post nothing than something that could be misleading. Or still post the link to a better blog post and if people don’t click then that’s on them, and least the author has put a more comprehensive argument together. Otherwise why bother writing up research either? People might just read the abstract. Why bother watching a full baseball game? You can just get the condensed highlights and winner afterwards. Why bother watching a movie? You can watch the trailer for a lot of the great bits and then read a synopsis online. Plenty of people actually do those things and I guess that’s okay too but there value and good reason to put out the whole product too.

bsder 4y ago

Normally when things have reached the "Air it in public" level of greivance, what is being put out in public is at least factual--just probably not all of the facts. However, I can quite easily see this happening on the MIT side. Some mid-level bureaucrat who doesn't even know what W3C is will be losing budget, so they're playing hardball assuming the usual level of scrutiny. They're going to get a surprise when they get dumped on by their managers because this suddenly hit a lot of eyeballs and is garnering negative PR for the entire university.

ineedasername 4y ago

That’s partly because twitter is just about the worst possible place to have a detailed conversation on an issue, really just about any issue. I have no idea why anyone of any level of technical sophistication or containing halfway decent communication skills makes the attempt. Choose a free blog, write something more substantive, and write a succinct Twitter post to get people aware of it. Or at least do that at the same time you post a balkanized “thread” like the author here and link to the more substantive post in the process.

mattl 4y ago
People aren’t reading random blogs as much as they’re reading social media
- theshrike79 4y ago
  Thus: link to random blog from social media.
  - mattl 4y ago
    People don’t click as much either.
    - ineedasername 4y ago
      Then it’s better to post nothing than something that could be misleading. Or still post the link to a better blog post and if people don’t click then that’s on them, and least the author has put a more comprehensive argument together. Otherwise why bother writing up research either? People might just read the abstract. Why bother watching a full baseball game? You can just get the condensed highlights and winner afterwards. Why bother watching a movie? You can watch the trailer for a lot of the great bits and then read a synopsis online. Plenty of people actually do those things and I guess that’s okay too but there value and good reason to put out the whole product too.