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He gets a lot of mileage by just brute forcing his views on others making him unpleasant to deal with - a level that most people just don't want to go to when they're already concerned about legitimate issues or genuine concerns they have that he does not share.

Some years back a discussion blew up here in the instructor community with one instructor very vocal about some concerns they had with the way Udemy handled their business. If memory is correct it started around that old chestnut of why Udemy Trust and Safety never advocate for the instructor when a student drops a blatantly false or abusive review - something that coms up year after year and the admins are careful to avoid when people bring it up.

LawrenceMMiller was a staunch advocate of Udemy at the time and took his usual tone with this person. Things quickly blew up over the course of a few days to the point that he became outright hostile and abusive with this instructor - attacking his course and his content choices until this instructor rage quit and deleted all of his courses.

Never once in the course of this conversation did Udemy intervene - not at the beginning, during the escalation (and a lot of instructors were involved) and not after this person left. There was no follow up or debrief and memory may fail me but I believe MartinaT was an admin at that time. Apologies if you weren't this is some time ago. But I've never trusted Udemy since at least in regard to the value or level of protection they offer to instructors. And I've always been wary of you since LawrenceMMiller.

To give LawrenceMMiller his due - he's an extremely talented and credentialed individual who has also been incredibly generous in the past - I attended his seminar on how to analyze and interpret your monthly Udemy course data and it was incredibly valuable (I was on holiday, sick and it was 4am over here when it aired but still made the effort and I was not disappointed).

But you're always the closest to being an outright bully here in the instructor community. You could have been an incredible advocate for this community. but more often than not you're an obstacle to conversation rather than an asset. I can't ever remember I time I have seen you curious in a topic - time and gain you swagger in like you're an authority and you drop your "truth bombs" to derail another person's thread then try and brute force everyone into your own narrow point of view, dismissing those who don't follow. Getting increasingly aggressive and things continue.

You've got so much to give. It's disappointing when you behave the way you do sometimes.