Poof.

I’ve covered it here before, but the epidemic continues…

Someone writes a not-great comment. I rebut it with facts and citations… and in roughly the same tone that the commenter used.

The commenter reads the reply, gets embarrassed, and deletes their comment.

For whatever reason, that bothers me.

I guess my issue is that I spent the time and effort to address the comment, and rather than just say that they hadn’t thought about the issue from that perspective (or whatever) - they just remove the evidence that the interaction even happened.

Today, a mom let me know that I was a terrible human, because I’d mentioned in Dad Ruins Life360 that kids (and spouses) could easily spoof and bypass the app. Mind you, I didn’t tell anyone how to do it - which I think is kind of an important point.

She said that she needs to see if her 16 year old is speeding. Because she doesn’t want him to die.

Well, I don’t want anyone to die, either - but I did point out that monitoring speed doesn’t actually reduce speed. Or keep anyone from being killed. I said that, if controlling speed was actually the goal, that she should install a speed governor - or buy a car that has that kind of feature already built-in (Fords have that, I think).

I thought it was a useful comment. I was definitely more civil in the response, than she was in her initial comment.

So, there’s a lot to be embarrassed about. The tone. The factual inaccuracies. The logic problems. I get it. But I think a necessary consequence of being loud wrong, is that you face the consequences of those actions.

As long as this keeps happening, I’m going to keep mentioning it