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 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.