Zuckerberg apologizes for Beacon -- announces a full opt-out

Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for Beacon -- announces a full opt-out by Goladus on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @09:14PM (#86479)

I'd rate this about a 6/10 on the "sorry, we fucked up" scale. I agree that in a climate where Sony's response to the rootkit thing is normal, any humility goes a long way. This post is mostly sincere and mostly apologetic, but Zuckerberg needs a better editor. It could be streamlined a lot. He'd lost my attention by the second use of the word 'lightweight,' and I knew exactly what he meant.

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Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for Beacon -- announces a full opt-out by dfranke on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @11:27PM (#86504)

I'd rather see the poorly-edited version. It gives me confidence that Zuck simply said what he meant, rather than run ten different versions through focus groups to see which one would get the best reaction.

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Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for Beacon -- announces a full opt-out by Goladus on Thursday December 06, 2007 @08:36AM (#86607)

I don't mean he should rely on a focus group or let someone else write for him, I mean finding one or two people that will help him make sure he's saying what he wants to say. There's a lot of room to improve clarity and readability without becoming 'sanitized.'

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Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for Beacon -- announces a full opt-out by dfranke on Friday December 07, 2007 @01:29AM (#86925)

Sure. I'm not saying that sloppy writing is a necessary condition for candor. But it's a near-sufficient one.

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