A) the positive comments being left, are largely irrelevant. If the claim is “Kat encouraged me to drive without a license” then no amount of “I have had great experiences with Kat at EAGs” is relevant.
I completely agree “I have had great experiences with Kat at EAGs” is irrelevant to the claim “Kat encouraged me to drive without a license”, which is why I’ve been pretty clear in my comments that I don’t see Nonlinear leadership coming out looking good after this.
At the same time, this post isn’t narrowly focused on this issue or just a few issues, but rather seems like a summary of the negative things that Ben found out when he started investigating Nonlinear.
So I think “it’s off-topic” could have been a valid position had Ben chosen a narrower focus, but I don’t think that applies in general given this particular case. On the other hand, if you think any specific comments are a distraction, I’d encourage you to (politely!) pick one or two of them (perhaps the top-voted) and explain why the comment is a distraction from the real issues here.
Just to finish on a question, if Kat had asked N number of people to chime in, at what point would you think it’s excessive? I.e. I assume we’d agree, if she asked 400 people to chime in, that would be excessive. But what is the minimum number whereby you feel this would be excessive?
I think this is an excellent point and I don’t exactly know. I think it’s made trickier by the fact that someone might send out a bunch of requests and then it’s quite variable how many people reply. For example, if you message eight people and three comment, then that seems like a reasonable number of people sharing their positive impressions, but then if all eight add a comment then that could very well have a significant distortive effect.
I completely agree “I have had great experiences with Kat at EAGs” is irrelevant to the claim “Kat encouraged me to drive without a license”, which is why I’ve been pretty clear in my comments that I don’t see Nonlinear leadership coming out looking good after this.
At the same time, this post isn’t narrowly focused on this issue or just a few issues, but rather seems like a summary of the negative things that Ben found out when he started investigating Nonlinear.
So I think “it’s off-topic” could have been a valid position had Ben chosen a narrower focus, but I don’t think that applies in general given this particular case. On the other hand, if you think any specific comments are a distraction, I’d encourage you to (politely!) pick one or two of them (perhaps the top-voted) and explain why the comment is a distraction from the real issues here.
I think this is an excellent point and I don’t exactly know. I think it’s made trickier by the fact that someone might send out a bunch of requests and then it’s quite variable how many people reply. For example, if you message eight people and three comment, then that seems like a reasonable number of people sharing their positive impressions, but then if all eight add a comment then that could very well have a significant distortive effect.