Heh…. there’s pretty much *zero* in the way of taboo topics at 6A. We’re brutally sarcastic and always poking at each other in jest, so anything we can use as ammunition is fair game.

And bloggers do have a good memory for some things, it’s true, but what they are is arbitrary, and how they take them is completely random. Like, I’m friends with the team that made Flickr and the team that made Blogger, and when Flickr moved to Yahoo logins, they got beat up even though they gave people lots of advance notice and free account upgrades and the ability to still display the user name they wanted. When Blogger moved to Google Accounts sign-ins, it didn’t get any real negative attention at all.

You could argue the reasons why (I think in Flickr’s case, they had Thomas Hawk stoking the fires as a competitor at Zooomr) but it just shows these things don’t always follow reasonable patterns.

In our case, we got dinged for not explaining adequately changes that were making — we messed up by not telling people what we were intending to do. I’ve seen mistakes where people messed up by intentionally *not* telling people bout deliberate actions, and that seems far worse.

But I don’t suspect people will make these evaluations on anything but an emotional basis, and there’s no point in really trying to persuade people about their feelings.

I wonder if MT will EVER live down their licensing whoops of 2004? You gotta wonder if that is one of those “taboo” topics within the walls of the SA offices - - something only whispered about by the very brave, while huddled around the coffee pot in the morning?

If anything, it shows that bloggers have a memory like an elephant.