Nibble Stew: A followup to the Refterm blog post
My previous blog post was about some measurements I made to Refterm. It got talked about on certain places on the net from where it got to Twitter. Then Twitter did the thing it always does, which is to make everything terrible. For example I got dozens of comments saying that I was incompetent, an idiot, a troll and even a Microsoft employee. All comments on this blog are manually screened but this was the only time when I just had to block them all. Going through those replies seemed to indicate that absolutely everyone involved [1] had bad communication and also misunderstood most other people involved. Thus I felt compelled to write a followup explaining what the blog post was and was not about. Hopefully this will bring the discussion down to a more civilized footing.
Now, and this is important, the original people who worked on Refterm never made these kinds of claims. They did not! And further, I never claimed that they did. Other people ("the talking heads on the Internet") made those claims and then mental misattribution took over. This is unfortunate but sadly almost inevitable whenever these kinds of debates happen. That then leads to the obvious follow up question:
