tone-deaf

The risk is Apple come off as tone-deaf and with such an over-reaching move.

However, ideas such as these are the exact type that tone-deaf MBA types think up lots of times.

Either MS collects too much data, or they are tone-deaf to the market and aren't keeping up with cutting edge features.

When you come in and right off the bat are condescending, haughty, and tone-deaf, as well as non-transparent, then don't be surprised if the internet is harsh.

Great example of why Western narratives are essentially tone-deaf to Eastern Europeans.

This is just amazingly tone-deaf on Reddit's part.

The knee-jerk response to this obvious point is that someone brought in to monetize a community could easily damage it by being tone-deaf or compromising it in pursuit of profit.

Ellen Pao blew it with the Victoria firing, so there's at least one thread of this story that has nothing to do with sexism and everything to do with typical tone-deaf executives.

> This is just amazingly tone-deaf on Reddit's part.

It's a little tone-deaf to suggest that people who don't make six figures in their day job are lining up to have their content stolen because our industry inadvertently built extremely good ways of doing so.

The other reason is as you would suspect: > The secondary purpose of shutting down was to communicate to the relatively tone-deaf company leaders that the pattern of removing tools and failing to improve available tools to the community at large, not merely the moderators, was an affront to the people who use the site.

If anything, it's a tone-deaf sociopathic attempt to "get to know each other".

"If it needs ads, it shouldn't exist" is just tone-deaf at best.

"We did not anticipate or intend for other communities to follow our lead as part of a protest." "The secondary purpose of shutting down was to communicate to the relatively tone-deaf company leaders that..." Own up to one or the other.

Tone-deaf marketing and there was a horror story a few years ago about the culture.