“sticks & stones may break my bones…”

Every writer, blogger, and professional, regardless of industry/field has to deal with haters and flamers. If you can’t stand the heat, get the F’ out of the fire, that is, if you’re going to publish your words, you should be prepared for the inevitable storm of criticism, so its no excuse or rationale that DB commenters are malicious or mean.

I, as well as others, offered constructive criticism, which had Kouwe taken to heart & worked at, would have likely seem him still employed. Alas, he didn’t; can’t help a man who can’t or isn’t willing to help himself.

Are we really 100% clear that that problem is in the rearview?

And the previous comment re: your not engaging more here, it isn’t meant as any sort of slight but rather an impression. There are already plenty of other platforms upon which you are quite active.

If that is indeed the case, then how did Kouwe gain any sort of information if he was never on list of people who could view email/IP?

And this is not a slagging off of DB, but the sheer meanness of their anonymous commenters is just tiring and reason why I don’t read them. Lack of meaningful conversation is I guess another way of putting it.

A. How bad of a blogger Kouwe is.
B. How justified the comments criticizing him were.
C. How impossible it is to defend Kouwe as a decent blogger, journalist, or professional person (at least as revealed through his work and actions in this matter).

The reason Kouwe has struggled at both of his jobs is that he really has no idea how to add value to information that’s already in the public domain, which is a large part of the job for journalists AND bloggers. First he tried plagiarizing to cover up the fact that he doesn’t know much about anything and is not a very skilled writer. When the NYT busted him, he shifted to out-of-context and poorly selected quotes followed by poorly written paraphrases and lame jokes at Dealbreaker. I would be hard-pressed to point to anything he did that qualified as informative, analytical, or humorous. For all that I criticize your blogging when you make a weaker post, many of your posts add significant value to the material you’re quoting, because you always link, perhaps quote an interesting portion, but then add your interpretation, analysis, or humor. Kouwe simply doesn’t know how to do any of this effectively. He may be a fun guy to drink a beer with (I don’t know), but he should not be a writer and he has now violated basic ethical obligations of writing jobs twice in an effort to avoid that fact.