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I had no idea who he is, and that he is competing with Twitter. I would have welcomed a disclaimer about his conflict of interests somewhere in the post.
by anonymouz 14y ago
I had no idea who he is, and that he is competing with Twitter. I would have welcomed a disclaimer about his conflict of interests somewhere in the post.
- fusiongyro 14y agoThat's not what a conflict of interests is. There's only one interest there. Things are going to get very tiresome if everybody is going to be expected to preface every published opinion with their entire background so you can decide whether their argument has merit without reading it.
- jopt 14y agoThanks for bringing this up. The present trend of prefixing everything with "full disclosure" seems to me to misunderstand the whole issue, and dilutes the legitimate cases where disclosure is needed.
- karl_nerd 14y agoWouldn't need so much. The sidebar could say 'founder of app.net' instead of the machismo bullshit that's there now.
- lsc 14y agoI think it's generally considered bad form do dump on your competitors, even when you do disclose your financial interests in the matter. I mean, it's certainly not illegal, and one could argue that it isn't even unethical. But it's definitely in bad form. Rude. Vulgar.