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by sillysaurusx 26 days ago
Why not?

This is arguing for style over substance. The goal is to explain how a bug impacts the company. Anything that achieves the goal is de facto good. Remember, the alternative is for the company not to be notified at all.

2 comments

Style, and the effort an author put into their writing are both legitimate targets of rhetoric, analysis, and criticism.
They got $12k for their work. Their writeup was fine.
I clicked on the post and immediately bounced off because it was intense slop. Like a high schooler padding out their essay to hit a word count.

I don't care if they got paid for it. It's an interesting misconfiguration that you can describe in one sentence. I don't need to read the corresponding 500 word blog post.