I hemmed and hawed about this but ultimately ended up strong-downvoting this post. The main reason is several instances of behaviour I consider strong and culpable norm-violations, including sharing private documents and emails without permission, outing people, and making various personal allegations that haven’t been properly researched or verified prior to publication.
There’s a broader theme where this post pitches itself as “just asking questions” but is pretty clearly written as an attempted exposé; I think if you do want to do an exposé, you should put some effort into finding out whether your accusations are actually true before making them publicly. (As one example, with the coffee table, you could quite easily have found out the background of this by asking someone, then published the actually correct story with an addendum like “I think this is bad because X reason”, and this would have saved everyone a lot of time.)
I gave the OP a weak downvote, although this comment almost convinced me to make it a strong downvote. I probably wouldn’t have downvoted if this would have taken the post into the negative, but I’m starting to become worried about the incentives if posts get strongly upvoted merely for being critical, regardless of their other attributes. I guess I would have preferred for the post to be honest that it’s attempting an expose rather than just pretending to “just be asking questions”.
This plus several other comments convinced me the content of the post isn’t worth the norm violations, and the various rumours should have been checked further, and the people running Atlas given an opportunity to respond.
I hemmed and hawed about this but ultimately ended up strong-downvoting this post. The main reason is several instances of behaviour I consider strong and culpable norm-violations, including sharing private documents and emails without permission, outing people, and making various personal allegations that haven’t been properly researched or verified prior to publication.
There’s a broader theme where this post pitches itself as “just asking questions” but is pretty clearly written as an attempted exposé; I think if you do want to do an exposé, you should put some effort into finding out whether your accusations are actually true before making them publicly. (As one example, with the coffee table, you could quite easily have found out the background of this by asking someone, then published the actually correct story with an addendum like “I think this is bad because X reason”, and this would have saved everyone a lot of time.)
I gave the OP a weak downvote, although this comment almost convinced me to make it a strong downvote. I probably wouldn’t have downvoted if this would have taken the post into the negative, but I’m starting to become worried about the incentives if posts get strongly upvoted merely for being critical, regardless of their other attributes. I guess I would have preferred for the post to be honest that it’s attempting an expose rather than just pretending to “just be asking questions”.
This plus several other comments convinced me the content of the post isn’t worth the norm violations, and the various rumours should have been checked further, and the people running Atlas given an opportunity to respond.
I think they’re currently not planning to, see here.
Yeah, but had they been asked to go over the post before publication, this might have gone down differently