I think I missed the point too, because this comment, your comments on the College Misery HN thread, and your other posts about Internet mobs (I'm having deja v

I think I missed the point too, because this comment, your comments on the College Misery HN thread, and your other posts about Internet mobs (I'm having deja vu, I think you must have commented about this in the past) just come off as more clear headed and make much more sense than this blog post. I can only speak for myself, but I think it's partly that you have some thinly veiled support for people gaming the credentialism system and because I have a knee jerk reaction to plagiarism that's probably partly indoctrination and partly some moral sense of fairness. Personally, I am really interested in hearing more of your thoughts about the credentialism issue (I apologize if you've blogged about it before and I've missed it). But I think that the issue of Internet lynch mobs is a different topic and getting these two topics with potentials for emotional reactions mixed up is what's confusing me.