Re:Roblox October Outage Postmortem
by nightpool on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:22PM
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While I personally think digitalengineer's comment was low-effort and knee-jerk, I think this general thread of discussion is on topic for the comment replied to, which was specifically about how the postmortem increased the commenter's respect for Roblox as a company and made them want to work there. I think an acceptable compromise between "ethical considerations drown out any technical discussion" and "any non-technical discussion gets downvoted/flagged to oblivion" would be to quarantine comments about the ethics of Roblox's business model to a single thread of discussion, and this one seems as good as any.
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The guidelines and zillions of moderation comments are pretty explicit that doesn't count as 'on topic'. You can always hang some rage-subthread off the unrelated perfidy, real or perceived, of some entity or another. This one is extra tenuous and forced given that 'the type of company I'd want to work for' is a generic expression of approval/admiration.