Sorry Tufte, it was just an April fool’s joke

For those of you who did not guess, Tufte did not join our advisory board. And he did not make the statements in the blog post yesterday. It was just an April Fool’s joke. We are posting this clarification at the request of Mr. Tufte. We meant no offense - we think your critique of PowerPoint has spurred a lot of creativity in presentation design. We love your books and have them all in the SlideShare office (ok, I have not yet bought Beautiful Evidence, but I will rectify that today).

No, there are no algorithms for removing bullet points - SlideShare is a place for you to express yourself. If people like your slideshows, then it becomes popular, gets favorited, tagged, passed around. We don’t filter your content - express yourself as you want to, bullet points and all.