so some guy calls me an ashole for reporting and i get sacked? for not censoring - dont think that stands up in uk law very well.
Robert Scoble
· 3 years ago
Maurice: read Mike Arrington's post at http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=322 which explains what happened from Mike's point of view. He got sacked for a totally different reason. He was using the troubles of a competitor/partner to try to get his own conferences noticed. I agree that was sleazy. I would have pulled THAT post down and said "sorry, not appropriate at this time to discuss future events."
Was it worth firing? I don't know -- depends on what else was said.
Rex Dixon
· 3 years ago
Well contact me -- WP suspended my blog for violations of TOS?!?! WTF?
Rex
Robert Scoble
· 3 years ago
Rex: are you doing PayPerPost? Or posting advertising? Those aren't allowed under TOS of Wordpress.com. Among other things.
Ross
· 3 years ago
So Robert, whilst Mr Arrington's post *may* seem reasonable to you (it doesn't to many others) I hear Sam has had this typepad account locked/deleted. With professionalism like this, should MSM really be worried?
Hi Robert, the truth of the matter is probably something in between the two accounts. One thing though is that it's not considered normal practice here in the UK for someone to be fired without notice. As editorial director, Michael could surely have tackled the situation in an alternative way...
Rex Dixon
· 3 years ago
No payperpost running. Haven't made any money off the site at all. I am suspecting someone in England having just click the "spam" link in the admin panel. I have sent off an e-mail to the WP support group. Right now, I'd just like to hopefully grab my content and make the move earlier then anticipated.
Rex
Robert Scoble
· 3 years ago
Rex: I've written to Matt Mullenweg on your behalf.
Simon Brocklehurst
· 3 years ago
I understand emotions running high on this one. When people are fired, this is often he case. However, the truth is: there's no reason this has to be a bad thing, either for TechCrunch or for Sam.
TechCrunch will do just fine, I suspect.
And if Sam wants to create his own company, doing what TechCrunch UK did, then it seems to me that, after all this publicity (and TechCrunch UK being on hold), he has an amazing opportunity; especially because most people seem to be on Sam's side on this. If he's going to do that, though, he should move fast. Like - do it within the next week.
Robert W. Anderson
· 3 years ago
Robert, you may like Sam, but I stopped reading Sam's blog when he posted:
"Thank god at last it seems not all "Geek Girls" have to be ugly to qualify."
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so some guy calls me an ashole for reporting and i get sacked? for not censoring - dont think that stands up in uk law very well.
Was it worth firing? I don't know -- depends on what else was said.
Rex
Rex
TechCrunch will do just fine, I suspect.
And if Sam wants to create his own company, doing what TechCrunch UK did, then it seems to me that, after all this publicity (and TechCrunch UK being on hold), he has an amazing opportunity; especially because most people seem to be on Sam's side on this. If he's going to do that, though, he should move fast. Like - do it within the next week.
"Thank god at last it seems not all "Geek Girls" have to be ugly to qualify."
Nice sentiment.
From: http://samsethi.typepad.com/sethi/2006/05/busin...
Cheers,
Robert
http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2006/episode-4-exclusive-e...
@Simon - from the interview it sounds like Sam's gonna take that opportunity. I look forward to the result!