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by scuttlemonkey 3042 days ago
Schaun you are welcome to stop by https://slack.data.world and engage (and we definitely welcome engagement). This effort has been open for community review for several months (not just an MVP whipped together by a couple of "freds in a shed"). Please be warned however, simply linking to

https://medium.com/@schaun.wheeler/internet-argument-form-le...

when someone disagrees with you will not be welcomed by anyone, any more than it was in the D4D slack. I look forward to having a productive conversation with you and sharing our broader view for this being a living document (and much more than _just_ a document). Thanks.

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A few things:

1. I never claimed the MVP was just whipped together. I claimed it was an MVP. I'm aware that this has been worked on for months - I joined the Slack channel and tried to participate. You made a straw-man argument.

2. The piece of my mine you linked to was never posted in the D4D slack. Or in any other community discussion. At least not by me. You resorted to an ad hominem attack on me personally instead of a principled attack on my position.

3. You stress the fact of this being a living document as if that had something to do with my concerns. Living or not, it went into production without fully considering the downstream harm the product could cause. You avoided my actual argument with a red herring instead of engaging it.

Given all of the above, why should I accept that your invitation to participate in the data.world slack was extended in good faith?

If anything in my original post seemed to warrant the hostility of your response, then I beg your pardon for poor wording. But my argument still stands.