Six Apart: Wow, what a fool.
Aug. 7th, 2007 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusWhen I suggested LJ might dig itself to China, I was kidding. But Six Apart's VP ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anildash's response to the ValleyWag article (I take it the gossip hit an all-too-accurate nerve?) suggests China, and possible lift-off once LJ hits the other side.
Quote: 'Thanks and good luck to Brad -- can't wait to see what you do next. And a big hearty fuck-you to rumormongers who stir shit up just to demoralize people who do good work. If you don't have enough drama in your life, go make something that millions of people think is valuable.'
Because giving the gossipmongers more to gossip about is always a good idea. I've got to talk to my friends in PR. This is one for the textbooks.
P.S. The rumormongers in question are ValleyWag: Six Apart Fails To Spin and Valley Wag: Six Apart Funnels Donations to Backer's Pet Charities.
ETA: Oh yeah. Really bad idea to piss off the rumormongers.
Son of ETA: Aha. Apparently this is corporate politics (vagueness alert) aimed at screwingbrad over. And reading through the comments on ValleyWag makes the motives of the commenters pretty damned clear. anildash's post is very stupid, but I don't like being manipulated by ax-grinders.
anildash's response to the ValleyWag article (I take it the gossip hit an all-too-accurate nerve?) suggests China, and possible lift-off once LJ hits the other side. Quote: 'Thanks and good luck to Brad -- can't wait to see what you do next. And a big hearty fuck-you to rumormongers who stir shit up just to demoralize people who do good work. If you don't have enough drama in your life, go make something that millions of people think is valuable.'
Because giving the gossipmongers more to gossip about is always a good idea. I've got to talk to my friends in PR. This is one for the textbooks.
P.S. The rumormongers in question are ValleyWag: Six Apart Fails To Spin and Valley Wag: Six Apart Funnels Donations to Backer's Pet Charities.
ETA: Oh yeah. Really bad idea to piss off the rumormongers.
Son of ETA: Aha. Apparently this is corporate politics (vagueness alert) aimed at screwing
brad over. And reading through the comments on ValleyWag makes the motives of the commenters pretty damned clear. anildash's post is very stupid, but I don't like being manipulated by ax-grinders.
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Date: 2007-08-08 01:18 am (UTC)But this post was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back, not because of anything in the post, it was just the most recent that talked about Brad and I finally had to talk about it, because... because for the past few days speculation on my corner of lj has been insane and I don't think people understand (not you or icarus, but a lot of posts I read, yeah) the kind of corporate gossiping that goes on, particularly for computer-related companies.
These people are all online and pretty much as vicious as fandom on its nastiest days. And that's what this was. Hell, it's basically professional sockpuppeting.
Or, at least it was until anildesh had to say something.