I’m still trying to comprehend how all this came about and who’s behind it. To start, read Kathy Sierra’s post on Creating Passionate Users.
Basically, a group of bloggers and well known authors had created a site called MeanKids (no longer online) that smack talked famous and respectable bloggers such as Kathy Sierra, Hugh MacLeod, and Robert Scoble.
The assholes behind this blog included Chris Locke (co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto), Jeneane Sessum, Frank Paynter, and Allen Herrel.
A few posts on the MeanKids site are archived by Google’s cache, you can find them quite easily, and they are disgustingly idiotic.
Someone chose to go much too far, threaten Kathy through comments and e-mails, and hide behind an anonymous name.
The whole nature of creating a blog with the intent to slander others, no matter how humorous you found it, is ridiculous. You have to be out of your mind to not think that those words won’t offend anyone.
If you’ve ever visited Break.com, you know that almost every single comment on a video is immature, offensive, and has no relation to the video whatsoever. I feel this MeanKids attack on Kathy is much the same. It’s a shame that these people can hide behind their little avatars (Seth touched on this) and can’t find something better to do with their time.
I apologize for the title, but this one really got at me.
Best wishes to Kathy.
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