Facebook-owned sites were down

Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by new_guy on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:04PM (#28752061)

That's just an 'appeal to authority'.

No-one knows or cares who made the statement, it may as well have been 'water is wet', it was useless and adds nothing but noise.

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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by l9i on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:46PM (#28752489)

I found a comment that was factually incorrect and I felt competent to comment on that. Regrettably, I wrote just one sentence and clicked reply without providing any credentials to back up my claim. Not that I try to hide my identity, as danhak pointed out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28751644, my full name and URL of my personal website are only a click away.

I have replied to my initial comment with provide some additonal context: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=28752431. Hope that helps.

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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by heartbreak on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:28PM (#28752298)

That’s…not what “appeal to authority” means.

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