A central problem is that accusing something of being fraudulant carries an immense cost as its hard to percieve as anything but a direct attack. Whoever did the fraud has every incentive to shut you down and very little to lose which gets very nasty very quickly.
Ideally there would be a low commitment way to accuse someone of fraud that avoids this. Normalising something akin to “This smells fishy to me” and encouraging a culture of not taking it too personally, whenever the hunch turns out wrong might be a first step towards a culture where fraud is caught more quickly.
as a side note, maaaan did this post trigger a strong feeling of imposter syndrome in me!
I wouldn’t worry about it, nothing about your writing in particular. It’s not something that caused me any real distress! I think the topic of catching fraud is inherently prone to causing imposter-syndrome, if you often go around feeling like a fraud. You get that vague sense of ‘oh no they finally caught me’ when you see a post on the topic specifically on the EA Forum.
A central problem is that accusing something of being fraudulant carries an immense cost as its hard to percieve as anything but a direct attack. Whoever did the fraud has every incentive to shut you down and very little to lose which gets very nasty very quickly.
Ideally there would be a low commitment way to accuse someone of fraud that avoids this. Normalising something akin to “This smells fishy to me” and encouraging a culture of not taking it too personally, whenever the hunch turns out wrong might be a first step towards a culture where fraud is caught more quickly.
as a side note, maaaan did this post trigger a strong feeling of imposter syndrome in me!
ooooops, I’m sorry re: the imposter syndrome—do you have any more detail? I don’t want to write in a way that causes that!
I wouldn’t worry about it, nothing about your writing in particular. It’s not something that caused me any real distress! I think the topic of catching fraud is inherently prone to causing imposter-syndrome, if you often go around feeling like a fraud. You get that vague sense of ‘oh no they finally caught me’ when you see a post on the topic specifically on the EA Forum.