In addition, if I were getting career-related information from a community builder, that community builder’s future career prospects depended on getting people like me to choose a specific career path, and that fact was neither disclosed nor reasonably implied, I would feel misled by omission (at best).
By analogy, let’s say I went to a military recruiter and talked to them at length about opportunities in various branches of the military. Even though they identified themselves as a generic military recruiter, they secretly only got credit for promotion if I decided to join the Navy. I would feel entitled to proactive disclosure of that information, and would feel misled if I got a pro-Navy pitch without such disclosure.
(I am not saying I would feel misled if the community builder were evaluated on getting people to make EA career choices more broadly. I think it’s pretty obvious that recruiting is part of the mission and that community builders may be evaluated on that. Likewise, I wouldn’t feel misled if the military recruiter didn’t tell me they were evaluated on how many people they recruited for the military as a whole.)
In addition, if I were getting career-related information from a community builder, that community builder’s future career prospects depended on getting people like me to choose a specific career path, and that fact was neither disclosed nor reasonably implied, I would feel misled by omission (at best).
As far as I know, this is exactly what is happening.
In addition, if I were getting career-related information from a community builder, that community builder’s future career prospects depended on getting people like me to choose a specific career path, and that fact was neither disclosed nor reasonably implied, I would feel misled by omission (at best).
By analogy, let’s say I went to a military recruiter and talked to them at length about opportunities in various branches of the military. Even though they identified themselves as a generic military recruiter, they secretly only got credit for promotion if I decided to join the Navy. I would feel entitled to proactive disclosure of that information, and would feel misled if I got a pro-Navy pitch without such disclosure.
(I am not saying I would feel misled if the community builder were evaluated on getting people to make EA career choices more broadly. I think it’s pretty obvious that recruiting is part of the mission and that community builders may be evaluated on that. Likewise, I wouldn’t feel misled if the military recruiter didn’t tell me they were evaluated on how many people they recruited for the military as a whole.)
As far as I know, this is exactly what is happening.