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by chulk90 4047 days ago
We don't have the whole conversation. How do we know that the author didn't selectively show us his conversation with Google? Let's not jump to a conclusion.
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The author did selectively show us his conversation with Google. The author mentions this:

> Here’s a subset of our conversation with Google Support:

(emphasis mine) My reading of it was that the author appears to further denote where the conversation is snipped with ellipses:

> Google Support: Unfortunately I don’t have control over that right now but I can look into it for you

> ….

> Google Support: I looked through this, and it seemed that one of the issues was a lack of an End User Agreement (EULA)

Regardless, the blog author is trying to make a point. Removing irrelevant content is something the author should do (in my opinion), to keep the post to the point. Besides,

> How do we know that the author didn't selectively show us his conversation with Google?

…we of course have no way to verify that this is the actual conversation that took place. We assume, on good faith, that it is.

Nothing would ever get done if nobody jumped to conclusions.