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fc417fc802yesterday at 12:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

If you stipulate that everyone must be relaxing at the time, sure. But the core concept of crying wolf is IMO simply a false alert with no particular constraints placed on those responding. I think in this case it simultaneously qualifies as crying wolf as well as misdirection.


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croesyesterday at 1:03 PM

But this isn't a false alert. The alert is real, people just got misdirected.

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