I’m already on record in this comment thread that I don’t agree with the norms laid out above regarding reaching out to orgs and a right to reply. At the same time, I’m extremely worried you all at VettedCauses will take the focus on those issues and assume that you have some amazing criticism that the community is ignoring because they can’t look past the fact you didn’t color within the lines on those issues. Although I haven’t followed whatever is going on with you all, I very seriously doubt that is the case. It seems extremely likely to me that people have given valid push-back to your criticism, and you yourselves are now ignoring that push-back. You can’t just criticize others but ignore criticism directed at yourselves!
Yarrow points out that this could be an existential issue for your organization, I think you all need to really seriously take that type of criticism onboard and think long and hard about it. I hope the fact that I disagree about the things like right to reply but still share these concerns helps get it through to you all that the criticism you are receiving is not solely because you failed on those counts. I don’t give a single fuck about whether you gave someone a right to reply or whatever, but I still think what you all have been doing has a very high chance of being inappropriate and your criticisms probably have many serious issues on their merits.
Editing to add: Although I agree with what I said above, I also thought about this whole situation a bit, and I’m sure this situation feels terrible for you all, and I’m sorry for that. I think you all probably made some mistakes, but so have all of us. You all aren’t bad people or bad EAs or anything like that. Giving criticism is hard, and its unfortunately an area where mistakes that wouldn’t even get noticed in other places can earn you a lot of negative attention. Although I think there is important stuff for you all to learn from here, I hope you don’t take this experience as an indictment of you all as people.
I’m already on record in this comment thread that I don’t agree with the norms laid out above regarding reaching out to orgs and a right to reply. At the same time, I’m extremely worried you all at VettedCauses will take the focus on those issues and assume that you have some amazing criticism that the community is ignoring because they can’t look past the fact you didn’t color within the lines on those issues. Although I haven’t followed whatever is going on with you all, I very seriously doubt that is the case. It seems extremely likely to me that people have given valid push-back to your criticism, and you yourselves are now ignoring that push-back. You can’t just criticize others but ignore criticism directed at yourselves!
Yarrow points out that this could be an existential issue for your organization, I think you all need to really seriously take that type of criticism onboard and think long and hard about it. I hope the fact that I disagree about the things like right to reply but still share these concerns helps get it through to you all that the criticism you are receiving is not solely because you failed on those counts. I don’t give a single fuck about whether you gave someone a right to reply or whatever, but I still think what you all have been doing has a very high chance of being inappropriate and your criticisms probably have many serious issues on their merits.
Editing to add: Although I agree with what I said above, I also thought about this whole situation a bit, and I’m sure this situation feels terrible for you all, and I’m sorry for that. I think you all probably made some mistakes, but so have all of us. You all aren’t bad people or bad EAs or anything like that. Giving criticism is hard, and its unfortunately an area where mistakes that wouldn’t even get noticed in other places can earn you a lot of negative attention. Although I think there is important stuff for you all to learn from here, I hope you don’t take this experience as an indictment of you all as people.
It seems to be just the one overconfident young guy