You paid them money. You got a service. If you bought groceries from a grocery store every week, and one well you showed up to find they were closed, would you feel like you were owed an explanation?

Yes. But only because the usual routine is worth something to me, and i would be angry about a change that is forced upon me. Getting an explanation is a way to release that anger.

Annoyed I’d understand, but angry? Other people aren’t required to help maintain your routine.

You put in data. They owe you data back.

If you put money in the bank, do you expect to get it back?

yes, agreed.... but we're talking about being owed an explanation - i think you missed that part of this thread.

> Any usage on your part is an investment in the company. Of course you would feel entitled to know why they are ceasing effective immediately

Going with the Steelman path - This is true if I sincerely believed in the company, likely promoted them to others, and was emotionally invested. I definitely would want one. As a shareholder, I would demand one.

Anyway, based on the OP's tone of this thread, I doubt they were emotionally invested let alone a paying customer - but assumptions.

Was steelmanning what I quoted which was not the OP.

Yes. Which is bad.

Wait... Why?

The bad part was not steelmanning the OP even a tiny bit, when you're fully familiar with the idea and expectation.

Ah got it. You've got a weird requirement for steelman arguments.

That it's rude to steelman one person while taking the worst interpretation of another person? I don't think that's weird.

This best describes my feeling.

“Just because they left a comment saying the explanation was suspicious, nobody would reasonably infer they feel entitled to an explanation.”

Uh-huh

What doesn't make sense about that?

Even if you don't owe me any explanation, if you freely give me a bad one I'm allowed to say there's something weird going on. Especially if you chose to make a fully public post about it.

Read the comment again. "perplexed" "It only communicates" "Am I reading too much into this" "curious". I don't see any implication of being owed more. It's a criticism that the post is not leaving the message that is intended.

It's not the same, but it reminds me of the quote: My "Not involved in human trafficking" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

Not an investment, an exchange of goods and services.

I’m not owed explanation if my local gas station closes down and I bought a tank of gas from them the day before.

A subscription is different from a one-off exchange. The expectation is for it to continue.

Tell that to my local newspaper. Most things come to an end at some point.

I would feel like the local newspaper should tell me why they are shutting down, if it wasn't already obvious because they're a newspaper. Wouldn't you?

That's what we're talking about here, not forcing them to stay up somehow.