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Originally Posted by CPHoya
I think you're misjudging the intended audience for that press release.
I know who it's aimed at and that is kinda why I find it so irritating. Just a bubble filled with people who don't see the ridiculousness of choosing to say:
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a platform that lets users crowdsource wisdom about what's happening on the local scene in real time
rather than:
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Localmind lets users talk about local events
i.e. the standard way of phrasing and explaining things is just unnecessarily twisted and warped.
The thing is, I wouldn't mind so much if you got the sense that the type of person who wrote that is in on the joke. But they wouldn't find it in anyway unusual to talk like that. Funny old world.