If I hold myself to satisfying A&C’s criterion here, I am basically:
a) strangleholding myself on how to share information about Nonlinear in public b) possibly overcommitting myself to a certain level of work that may not be worth it or desirable c) implicitly biasing the process towards coming out with a strong case against Nonlinear (with a lower-level quality of evidence, or evidence to the contrary, being biased against)
I would update if it turns out A&C was actually fine with Ben coming to the (open, public) conclusion that A&C’s claims were inaccurate, unfounded, or overblown, but it didn’t sound like that was okay with them based on the article above, and they weren’t open to that sort of conclusion. It sounded like they needed the outcome to be a pretty airtight case against Nonlinear.
Anyway that’s … probably all I will say on this point.
I am grateful for you, Ben, and the effort you put into this, as it shows your care, and I do think the community will benefit from the work. I am concerned about your well-being and health and time expenditure, but it seems like you have a sense for how to handle things going forward.
I am into setting firm boundaries and believe it’s a good skill to cultivate. I get that it is not always a popular option and may cause people to not like me. :P
I affirm that there was a bias toward the process coming out against Nonlinear. I think this would normally be unjustified and unfair but it was done here due to the IMO credible threat of retaliation — otherwise I would have just shared my info as I wanted to on day one. I have tried to be open about the algorithm I followed so that people can update on the filtering. Insofar as the concern about retaliation was essentially ungrounded then I think that doing this was wrong and I made a fairly serious mistake. I think it will be hard to know with certainty, given how much of the stuff was verbal, but overall I am quite confident that it was a justified concern.
To clarify, A&C didn’t ask me to make a “credible” post, I myself thought that was what I should do.
If I investigated and thought that the fears and harms were false, then my guess is that I would have shared a low-detail version of that. (“I have looked into these concerns about treatment of employees a fair bit and basically do not buy them.”) These accusations were having effects for Nonlinear and I would have wanted to counteract that.
I think the thing I’m attempting to point out is:
If I hold myself to satisfying A&C’s criterion here, I am basically:
a) strangleholding myself on how to share information about Nonlinear in public
b) possibly overcommitting myself to a certain level of work that may not be worth it or desirable
c) implicitly biasing the process towards coming out with a strong case against Nonlinear (with a lower-level quality of evidence, or evidence to the contrary, being biased against)
I would update if it turns out A&C was actually fine with Ben coming to the (open, public) conclusion that A&C’s claims were inaccurate, unfounded, or overblown, but it didn’t sound like that was okay with them based on the article above, and they weren’t open to that sort of conclusion. It sounded like they needed the outcome to be a pretty airtight case against Nonlinear.
Anyway that’s … probably all I will say on this point.
I am grateful for you, Ben, and the effort you put into this, as it shows your care, and I do think the community will benefit from the work. I am concerned about your well-being and health and time expenditure, but it seems like you have a sense for how to handle things going forward.
I am into setting firm boundaries and believe it’s a good skill to cultivate. I get that it is not always a popular option and may cause people to not like me. :P
I affirm that there was a bias toward the process coming out against Nonlinear. I think this would normally be unjustified and unfair but it was done here due to the IMO credible threat of retaliation — otherwise I would have just shared my info as I wanted to on day one. I have tried to be open about the algorithm I followed so that people can update on the filtering. Insofar as the concern about retaliation was essentially ungrounded then I think that doing this was wrong and I made a fairly serious mistake. I think it will be hard to know with certainty, given how much of the stuff was verbal, but overall I am quite confident that it was a justified concern.
To clarify, A&C didn’t ask me to make a “credible” post, I myself thought that was what I should do.
If I investigated and thought that the fears and harms were false, then my guess is that I would have shared a low-detail version of that. (“I have looked into these concerns about treatment of employees a fair bit and basically do not buy them.”) These accusations were having effects for Nonlinear and I would have wanted to counteract that.