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Questions themselves are not good-faith or bad-faith. People asking questions are doing so in either good-faith or bad-faith.

Someone pushing hard on legitimate criticisms with the intent of attacking a project or members thereof is acting in bad-faith, while someone ignorant with a totally bogus criticism could be acting in good-faith. Many bad-faith actors hide behind a veneer of legitimacy by disguising or shifting the gaze away from their motivations.




Umm, i disagree.

Bad/good faith is about whether you are being misleading or dishonest in asking the question.

You can intend to go attack a project in good faith as long as you are not being misleading in your intentions.

For example, a movie critic who pans a film is not acting in bad faith since they aren't being misleading in their intentions.


A movie critic who pans a film they think sucked is acting in good faith; a movie critic who pans a film specifically with the intent of attacking the film (whether as clickbait or because they don't like someone involved with the film or whatever) is acting in bad faith.

We might actually be in agreement with each other because a critic who leads with "The director slept with my wife, so I'm only going to say all the bad things about the film and you should probably ignore this review" would have significantly blunted their attack by leading with it, and are arguably not acting in bad-faith.




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