Comment by matt_f
6 years ago
If you're pissed off by this, as I am, here's how the author politely suggests that you direct your support:
> There is no comments section for this post. The appropriate comments section is the feedback page of the New York Times. You may also want to email the New York Times technology editor Pui-Wing Tam at pui-wing.tam@nytimes.com, contact her on Twitter at @puiwingtam, or phone the New York Times at 844-NYTNEWS
> (please be polite – I don’t know if Ms. Tam was personally involved in this decision, and whoever is stuck answering feedback forms definitely wasn’t. Remember that you are representing me and the SSC community, and I will be very sad if you are a jerk to anybody. Please just explain the situation and ask them to stop doxxing random bloggers for clicks.)
Note that the author also requests that people be polite in doing so. Everyone please model the behavior you want to see in this reporter.
Update: Thanks OP for updating to include a note about this.
Sorry for the unrelated question, but I'm not from the US and I'm curious, what does this mean?
844-NYTNEWS
Do landlines phones have letters in the US? Is it pressing a number several times?
And also mentioning that I'm grateful for SSC to exist. I rarely comment but it's a refreshing community.
Now 0800-INFO becomes 0800-4636 — you just press the key corresponding to the letter once.
Your chart isn’t quite right— Q and Z aren’t (or weren’t) generally present: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number#/media/File...
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You press the number on the dial pad which also has the letter in question. Just once.
This is just a popular (in the US?) way to make numbers easier to remember.
I see, so it's not like in the old mobile phones where you have to press a bunch of times to get a letter, just once. It's a clever custom.
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This refers to the letters that are on phone keypads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_keypad#/media/File:T...
You may find this relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_keypad#Letter_mappin...
mobile phones have letters on their dial pads also.
Do you guys really feel that you're on the right side of history by harassing an investigative journalist?
Yes. Doxxing people whose only crime is producing good but complex content for the world to enjoy is cyberbullying. If bullies are on the right side of history I have no interest in the metric.
Doxxing, what? What do you think journalism is? It's very common for controversial authors with a very wide reach to be "revealed" and investigated? How do you know that this is "cyber bullying" after just reading one side of the story?
People seem have lost all sense of objectivity due to some sort of idolatry.
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In short: yes.
To expand: nobody here is harassing the journalist. The journalist harassed the blogger. The commenters are providing polite, critical feedback.
How can you possibly know this?
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Harassing?
Investigative?
> Harassing?
What do you expect to happen when this kind of crowd ("rationalists") calls or mail-spam a journalist that's "attacking" their idol?
> Investigative?
Ok, just journalist then, does it matter?