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by rcfox 1482 days ago
> Also, no one is going to care in a day.

You should ask Sumit Bhatia about that. ;)

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Is there a word for a statement which inadvertently supports the opposing position in a debate?
No. You have earned the right to coin it.
Freudian burn? idk, but yes very good observation
If I ever knew who that was, I have long forgotten.
Who?
What did the guy do?
> An email requesting system access went out to all employees . It triggered a reply to all frenzy that resulted in my blackberry pinging constantly for over an hour with people replying-to-all asking to be removed from the distribution list. Even Mike Lazaridis replied to all asking this to be stopped. Then as different parts of the globe started work, they would reply to all. Classic evening. I think system admins eventually shut down the frenzy at server level. Some of the replies were hilarious though. I think I still have some screenshots somewhere.

https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/qstmls/sumit_bha...

He submitted a PR which adds an image to the Readme file (if i see that correctly). The PR notified 400k users...
Never heard of him