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The security community is a nutshell. twitter.com/marshray/statu I wonder why people don't feel welcome in this community. I try to do useful work in peace and yet on a daily basis there's an endless assault of misinformation and attacks. I'm completely tired of dealing with it.

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Marsh Ray

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Aug 22, 2019

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Sorry, but you come across sounding like a kook.

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Consider the possibility that others also want to “do useful work in peace” and if they contribute their time to write up professional feedback on a technical proposal only to immediately be accused of being personally dishonest it makes further useful discussion impossible.

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There's nothing professional about posting unsubstantiated assumptions and misinformation about someone's work to dismiss it as not useful, in order to promote the direction they support. They presented an 'expert' opinion on it without having a clue what they were talking about.

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The only reason I became involved in that thread was to defend my work from someone presenting it as useless because they work on something in the same area they want to promote. They knew they didn't know what they were talking about and still misled people about it anyway.

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Why are they attacking my work on a mailing list without even bothering to read what it's about? The rest of the discussion doesn't particularly interest me. Someone linked me to it and I saw someone repeatedly spreading misinformation about my work to downplay / dismiss it.

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It's not fair having someone present it in such a misleading way and act as if they're on an expert on the topic when they're not and didn't even do basic research to form an opinion. It's not legitimate criticism and misleads people not in a position to evaluate it themselves.

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They could have read through what it is and said they don't think they should switch because the project isn't mature / tested enough, or the performance compromises are too high, or some other legitimate criticism instead of misrepresenting what it is and what it does.

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It will *always* feel unfair when someone criticizes your baby, especially when they ‘just don’t get it’. But if your idea is really great, no one will ‘get it’ right away and it will take a lot of patient explaining for others to want to invest the time to really understand it

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I'm sure they would have gotten it if they actually read what was written about it but they didn't try to figure out what it was. They made convenient assumptions and jumped to conclusions to push their existing view on the direction to take. I don't really care what they choose.

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Making convenient assumptions and jumping to conclusions is a perfectly human thing to do, and to be expected in any community. I deeply believe that taking it so personally and calling it dishonest or unethical is absurd and extremely counter-productive.

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I consider the way they did it and presented it dishonest. I've read through it multiple times and feel the same way. They had time to write that post making it seem useless but not to read a few paragraphs about it. I was upset enough about it to waste a bunch of time on this.

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