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That's not what's written on the webpage. If your post is meant as a critique that they’re not offering those services, you should make that clear to avoid spre
by jabiko 11mo ago
That's not what's written on the webpage. If your post is meant as a critique that they’re not offering those services, you should make that clear to avoid spreading misinformation.
- strotter 11mo agoThe last sentence on the statement page contains a link to a "flexible travel policy" page, which contains the above quoted text.
- galaxy_gas 11mo agohttps://www.alaskaair.com/content/advisories/travel-advisories#it-outage https://www.alaskaair.com/content/advisories/travel-advisori... It is on top of the page and linked a in it
- jabiko 11mo agoAh, okay. I did a Google search for that phrase before posting my comment, but couldn't find any result. Probably its not indexed yet. Thanks for the clarification. Still I think it would have been better for OP to link to the source to avoid exactly this confusion.
- margalabargala 11mo agoThe confusion from people who declined to read the webpage? Most people will read both the comment and webpage, or neither. In either case there's no problem. It's only your uncommon case of reading the comment, not reading the webpage, and yet still feeling confident in making assertions about the webpage contents, where there's an issue. But that's not common, and I daresay the issue is not on OP's end.
- mikestew 11mo agoStill I think it would have been better for OP to link to the source to avoid exactly this confusion. There’s a link at the top of Alaska Air’s home page. But your first thought was to go search Google instead?
- deleted 11mo ago[deleted]
- ctz 11mo agoWelcome to the web. Pages often have hyperlinks that can be followed to see related information.
- msl 11mo agoAnd conveniently, Hacker News supports hyperlinks, so you can easily provide a source for your quotes so that everyone reading your post don't need to search for it again.
- thaumasiotes 11mo agoSo, summing this all up: (1) abnercoimbre (a) read through the document, (b) extracted the part of it that affected passengers are most likely to be interested in, and (c) helpfully provided a summary of that part; (2) jabiko (a) didn't bother reading the document, (b) assumed abnercoimbre was lying about what it said, and (c) accused abnercoimbre of "spreading misinformation"; (3) The underlying problem here is that abnercoimbre's behavior was bad, whereas jabiko provided a reasonable response to seeing an entirely truthful summary that consisted only of a direct, unaltered quote from the primary source. That's an interesting perspective. I might lean another way.
- msl 11mo agoYou will notice that the provided quote is not from the submitted page[1] but from another page[2] on the same site. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one on this page that assumes that quotes on top level comments are sourced from the submitted page unless otherwise noted. Mind you, I'm not defending jabiko here – I responded to the following comment: "Welcome to the web. Pages often have hyperlinks that can be followed to see related information." which I did not find reasonable. [1] https://news.alaskaair.com/on-the-record/alaska-statement-on-it-outage/ https://news.alaskaair.com/on-the-record/alaska-statement-on... [2] https://www.alaskaair.com/content/advisories/travel-advisories#it-outage https://www.alaskaair.com/content/advisories/travel-advisori...
- thaumasiotes 11mo ago