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Why no appreciation of the apology? If all people are going to do is find fault with people apologizing, why bother? How should Tumblr reacted? What are they su
by alan_cx 13y ago
Why no appreciation of the apology? If all people are going to do is find fault with people apologizing, why bother? How should Tumblr reacted? What are they supposed to do?
- geuis 13y agoWell said. A company can either continue on as before, which makes us associate them as bullies, or can correct a mistake. The real test is what comes after.
- ben0x539 13y agoWhy should we appreciate the apology? We might blame tumblr a little less now than if they'd stayed their course, but I don't see why it should swing over into appreciation of what they're doing. Perceivedly, it happens a lot that big scary companies bully smaller entities with meritless but expensive-to-fight legal threats. That sometimes there's enough of a public notice of that to make the company reconsider and to limit the damage done is just part of the game and doesn't really leave them without blame, it just means they got "caught" this time.
- aespinoza 13y agoI think you are missing the point here. It is stupid to blame Tumblr for all the other big scary companies. They made a mistake. They apologized and fixed the problem, and according to the apology they found a bug in their process and fixed it. Instead of bashing Tumblr for apologizing, we should be happy they retracted. If HN was the reason why they retracted, then great. But let's stop looking down on Tumblr purring ourselves at the top. We are all at the same boat and same level. We are all trying to make our companies work.
- whistlerbrk 13y agoHe is missing the point, it's not even his apology to accept, it's Zach's. He's appeared to do since he considers the apology 'genuine'. The thing to note in all this is: "Our legal department very recently started using a third party vendor to assist us in pursuing trademark infringers and, due to an error in our new process, your domain was mistakenly caught in the cross-fire." If tumblr has switched to yahoo! legal, that is not a nice side effect of the acquisition.
- ben0x539 13y ago> He is missing the point, it's not even his apology to accept, it's Zach's. Of course it's not for me to accept or not accept that apology and no one should care about my opinion on the matter. But I think not appreciating the apology is a defensible position to take and I'm trying to articulate why I feel so. Feel free to dismiss me. :)
- ben0x539 13y agoThe apology fits the patterns of those big scary companies. It's better than not giving an apology, sure, but in just my personal, humble opinion it does not exonerate them.
- Groxx 13y agoProbably because, as nice as this is, fixing an instance doesn't imply fixing the problem. The problem is (arguably) over-zealous protection - this does nothing to address that, it just brings back a single high-profile HN-popular site.
- zachinglis 13y agoI am appreciative. I wrote as much to the lawyer who contacted me. I should put that I am appreciative in.
- mikeash 13y agoIt's a bad apology. There's no real admission that they messed up (they implicitly blame a third party, and "process") and no mention whatsoever of doing anything to avoid future mistakes like this.
- bjackman 13y agoI disagree: "We deeply apologize for our mistake". I interpret the mention of a third party as an attempt to say "this was a mistake, not just us deliberately being dicks", not "this was not our fault".
- jcromartie 13y agoThey could fire the third party who is sending erroneous legal threats to people who couldn't possibly fight them.