Here’s how I see it:
- Some person posts criticism of Kagi
- CEO of Kagi emails the person saying, I think some of what you said is factually inaccurate and I’d like a chance to talk to you about why
- Person angrily refuses to do that
- Mod of !techtakes publicly posts screenshots in his sub instead, calls the CEO an unhinged narcissist and his email a “harangue”
- People come in the thread and say, actually what the CEO said sounds “totally hinged” and the rude response seems un called for
- Mod starts banning people and deleting comments of people who are arguing with him, leaving up his own side of the conversation.
The response of “I’m not debating this with you” is sane. You don’t owe that to anyone. However, I still see the ceo’s point in that he thinks his product is good, and he worked hard on it, so he’s going to defend this. Imo he should’ve just let the guy be after he told him to not contact me again, but the linked thread seems insane to me.
Not really. Or, not reasonable or responsible, I would say.
Not wanting to have a public debate about it sounds fine. Hearing the CEO out and then saying “I’m sorry but it sounds like we’re just not on the same page on this and talking more is not productive” sounds fine.
Deciding to make statements in a public forum that could materially impact someone’s livelihood, and not being at all open on any level to someone who wants to tell you hey I think some of these statements are just factually wrong and this person you’re convinced is a bad person and are publicly saying is a bad person, is not actually a bad person, that seems like middle-school levels of weird and hostile and self-centered.
Yeah. In my armchair mode, I feel like at that point you should back off and maybe make a short public response like “Hey I saw this and tried to reach out privately, not to get into a big back-and-forth but here’s why I think most of this is a misunderstanding of what we’re about. (point a, b, c) Happy to talk more if you change your mind.”
Yeah you’re right. I think the original author is also trying to hide behind the fact his post didn’t get traction to make this “actually this was quite private” when it wasn’t.