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It’s no more or less tiresome than a press release is itself. Whatever the material contents, a press release has “positivity” set to 1.0 (or as close to 1.0 as
by fwlr 4y ago
It’s no more or less tiresome than a press release is itself. Whatever the material contents, a press release has “positivity” set to 1.0 (or as close to 1.0 as permitted by law and professional standards). This upsets the balance of the world, and that balance can be restored by submitting a reply with “positivity” set to 0.0 (or as close to 0.0 as permitted by law and standards of etiquette).
Analogous to “someone who will never be happy no matter what was said”, the tone of the press release will always be happy no matter what they have to say.
It seems very natural - almost inevitable, even - that someone will reply to an artificially max-positive document with an artificially max-negative comment.
(Personally, I made peace with the tiresome nature of both press releases and critical replies by viewing it as an informal application of Laplace’s Rule - add one success and one failure to the total count to more accurately estimate the real underlying probability. The press release presents one observation guaranteed to be as positive as possible, and the inevitable critical reply presents another observation guaranteed to be as negative as possible, so with those two in hand you can look at other observations and get a better final estimation.)
- twblalock 4y agoThe press release also contains actual information that is relevant -- in this case, that free teams is not being sunset. The reflexive complaints about press releases don't have that value.
- genmud 4y agoWithout making any commitments that they won't at some point in the future undo that decision, that they see the importance of why there are free accounts, or what they are doing to ensure that community feedback is incorporated into their plans before they make decisions. Sure, they changed course on this single decision, but they haven't addressed the situation that allowed this to even take place, nor does it look like they are planning on it.
- justin_oaks 4y agoLet's be clear here. Even if a company commits to something in a public statement, it's no guarantee. Even if the writer of the post explains lessons learned and policy changes they're making, it's no guarantee. The people who learned the lessons can leave the company. Policies can be changed at a moment's notice or simply never be enforced. The best anyone will get is a contract that can be legally enforced, and that won't ever happen for free users.
- fwlr 4y ago(I edited my comment as you were replying, sorry about that.) If the reflexive maximally-negative complaints are contradicting the actual information presented, they had better come with strong evidence or I’m dismissing them (and I do find those comments more tiresome than press releases or the other negative replies; they come across as conspiratorial crank-cases with an axe to grind, even bordering on spam to my mind). The comments I had in mind are “the most negative interpretation of the information that comports with the facts”, much like the non-information components of the press release are the most positive interpretation of the information that comports with the facts. A press release contains info and fluff. The opposite of soft fluff is hard edges, so perhaps a cute and pithy summary of my view is that no fluffy PR statement is complete without an edgy reply.
- rlpb 4y ago> Analogous to “someone who will never be happy no matter what was said”, the tone of the press release will always be happy no matter what they have to say. So grow your own filter. But as another reply said, this press release still has valuable information remaining after having been filtered. Complaints about their press release reading like a press release do not.
- fwlr 4y ago>So grow your own filter I did! I combine the fluff of the PR with the edge of the negative reply and they cancel out, leaving me free to analyze the info that remains.
- mikercampbell 4y agoAll this being said, this was actually a pretty insightful conversation for me, not having considered the complexity around press releases like this, but still being uneasy about them but not sure why.
- tshaddox 4y ago> It’s no more or less tiresome than a press release is itself. I personally think the rote complaints about press releases are much more tiresome than the press releases themselves.