I don’t agree with the_jaded_one’s conclusions or think his post is particularly well-thought-out, but I don’t think raising the bar on criticism like this is very productive if you care about getting good criticism. (If you think the_jaded_one’s criticism is bad criticism, then I think it makes sense to just argue for that rather than saying that they should have made it privately.)
I agree with this and wasn’t trying to say something to the contrary. What I was trying to do is note that the post makes a relatively minor issue into an expose on EA and on 80K. I think this is unnecessary and unwarranted by the issue. What is was trying to do is note one way of handling the issue if your goal is merely to gain more information or see that a problem gets fixed.
I think public criticism is fine. I think a good, but not required, practice is to show the criticism to the organization ahead of publishing it so that they can correct factual inaccuracies. I think that would have improved the criticism substantially in this case.
I agree with this and wasn’t trying to say something to the contrary. What I was trying to do is note that the post makes a relatively minor issue into an expose on EA and on 80K. I think this is unnecessary and unwarranted by the issue. What is was trying to do is note one way of handling the issue if your goal is merely to gain more information or see that a problem gets fixed.
I think public criticism is fine. I think a good, but not required, practice is to show the criticism to the organization ahead of publishing it so that they can correct factual inaccuracies. I think that would have improved the criticism substantially in this case.
Thanks for clarifying; your position seems reasonable to me.