I talked with a redditor who sent Phil an e-mail interview offer. Now the e-mail might have had some questionable wording and was not the most professional but the offer was thus: No questions that contain direct insults and on top of that Phil would have been able to reject any question he didn't want to answer and he would move on to the next. The guy sending the offer was a random ass nobody. Phil didn't even bother to respond with a "no thanks".
Resend the email with polite and "professional wording" (does not mean boot-licking), as if you were actually a business that is doing a serious collaboration with him. Which technically is what you/they are trying to do, right?
The Hotmail spam folder is not just a meme, it could have eaten this guy's mail, easily.
Besides from that, some rando only has an opportunity (if any) if DSP knows he's in
absolute complete control. Because this is not Keemstar/someone other. Despite what he thinks about him, there is a sense of security with an Internet figure to uphold their end of the agreement (as in, for example, not ask about Champions), there is none of that with some faceless "potential troll".
Put yourself in the shoes of a paranoid man with no critical thinking.
Now, outside random people, if you can get someone like Destiny (I know he tried), or even Fredrik Knudsen, to set up an interview like this, it
could have a chance. I believe these two will honor their word, so it will depend on what agreement they set (i.e: if DSP insists on "those" questions
not even mentioned), then it loses the value.
What are they going to ask him that's interesting if it's not that? Politics? Waste of time.
DSP needs to trust the interviewer, and for that trust to form (specially with not sycophants), very restricting rules need to be set and uphold (or have reasonable conviction that they'll respect the rules, if broken, he'll end the interview that instant and go into a rant of people trolling/lying to him).