There’s an old saying, Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel
. I don’t know the original author, but it sounds like Mark Twain to me.
Now imagine that the ink-buyers in question are a pack of howling-mad bloggers. Their ink is free, you see. They can just keep writing, and keep writing, and keep writing. And they’ll all link to each other. And their rage will spread. And sooner or later, anyone trying to find your name on the web will find the rantings of a howling-mad pack of bloggers.
Would you pick that fight? One guy apparently would. Now, maybe he started out partially in the right, even mostly in the right. But then he started hurling false accusations. And threatening frivolous lawsuits. And generally doing other things that make very little business sense. And the barbarians with racist and sexist slurs rushed in to his aid, strangely enough from his very same IP address… just minutes later.
The howling is just starting, and I think it’s going to get a lot louder before it gets quieter. You want to be the guy picking that fight?
Bring it.