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Hello. It's nice to be able to interact directly with the subject of the article, so thanks for coming on. It's a shame you're being downvoted, because it would
by FridayoLeary 1y ago
Hello. It's nice to be able to interact directly with the subject of the article, so thanks for coming on. It's a shame you're being downvoted, because it would definitely be interesting to hear your perspective. This can't be a pleasant experience for you.
I have a couple of questions for you. Firstly the article really didn't hold back about you in a way that you don't usually see. But he makes very specific and verifiable claims. The owner blames the market for 40% of their decline and you for another 40%. You have made over 400 negative comments about the company over the last couple of years. You run the subreddit as a bad faith mod, and you run a rival company so you have an interest in the decline of codesmith. Those are some of the accusations laid against you by the article.
I would be interested in hearing what you have to say about them. Obviously i don't expect you to say anything that might create legal issues for yourself. But you have opinions that youre not shy of expressing. The article was perhaps not wholly neutral so maybe you can clarify your side of the story. Do you have a specific problem with codesmith? why do you care so much about them? Is it because they are competitiors? Do you take such an active role on reddit in order to promote your own interests, outside of creating and maintaining a better community?
To be clear i'm a completely random guy with no skin in the game, just looking for answers.
[edit to reply: There is no plausible scenario that my life will depend on the answer. Literally the only reason i'm on here is for casual chit chat. Frankly, this might be life changing for some people, but i'm really not too invested in the story so i don't mind opening some dialogue in good faith from my end.]
- bluishgreen 1y agoYou should be able to identify badfaith because your life depends on it. Otherwise you will drown in a pit of bothsides. Bad way to go. Next we should hear from the counter party is from a court filing. Not here. This is well past having a chill chat on hackernews.
- ctippett 1y agoThis is a wonderfully mature and constructive comment. I appreciate this is off-topic, but I really wanted to highlight/praise what you'd written. It came across to me as very "HN" and the guidelines appear to corroborate this... > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
- FridayoLeary 1y agoThanks for that. I've been through the guidelines a dozen times. Following them is really the best possible way to have genuinely interesting and constructive dialogue. My last account got banned so i've been trying to do better. It's amazing how much some good faith conversation can get you, i feel in the time i've been here it's helped me develop better patterns of thought and argument techniques, i would say the most important lesson i've learned is to debate in good faith as much as possible and being honest with yourself about what you know and don't know. Most of the users on this thread are just looking to shut michael down, and expressing their opinion that he's an awful person... It's really very tiresome and boring. I have enough confidence in people here that they can hear what he has to say and make their own judgement.
- michaelnovati 1y agoYeah I'll I'm going to say for now is that if all your competitors (that I spoke positively about) are shutting down and shrinking and laying people off... there's more to the story. A sad story about an industry dying that should be told.
- cap11235 1y agoGreat, then give us more to the story.
- LilBytes 1y agoWith sources.
- michaelnovati 1y ago[flagged]
- baobun 1y agoI'm sorry, what does anything there have to do with any of the claims people in this thread are asking you to back up? I don't see anything there that adds anything to the story except solidifying the picture of you as an obsessive stalker. It certainly doesn't help your case. In case I overlooked some key detail, please point it out.
- LilBytes 1y agoWe're getting sent around in circles, he has nothing.
- michaelnovati 1y agoI commented on the moderation stuff only for now, https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=45524707&goto=item%3Fid%3D45521920%2345524707 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=45524707&goto=item%3Fi...
- michaelnovati 1y agoI commented on the moderation stuff only to start, https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=45524707&goto=item%3Fid%3D45521920%2345524707 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=45524707&goto=item%3Fi...
- efreak 1y agoThis is a link to reply to a post that cannot be used by anyone who doesn't have an account. For anyone else browsing without being logged in (or using a client that can't parse the link), the post URL is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45524707 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45524707