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I feel like this happens every time we see one of her blog posts - she tries very hard to not provide any kind of specific information about anything she is wri

I feel like this happens every time we see one of her blog posts - she tries very hard to not provide any kind of specific information about anything she is writing about. Maybe it is to stop fanboys from harassing her when she trashes their favorite product or company, but it is the same technique used by people who are just making up stories.

lolinder 2y ago
> Maybe it is to stop fanboys from harassing her when she trashes their favorite product or company, I assumed the opposite: she knows that she has readers who will go trash on the developers of whatever random app she happens to be criticizing and doesn't want to be responsible for inciting an internet mob. In this case she provided enough information that anyone who was seriously concerned about their feed reader could easily find out if it was theirs—searching for the quoted text turns up the guilty RSS reader, her post, and a rip-off of the guilty reader which re-uses their marketing blurb. That's easy enough for someone who's motivated to find out if they're safe, but maybe not enough for a mob to form?