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So I clicked the first link to read about the actual claim, and I was floored by the author bio at the bottom: "Clint Deboer was terminated from Audioholics for

So I clicked the first link to read about the actual claim, and I was floored by the author bio at the bottom: "Clint Deboer was terminated from Audioholics for misconduct on April 4th, 2014. He no longer represents Audioholics in any fashion." Gotta wonder how bad you gotta screw up to have your byline on every article you wrote permanently set to that.

shermantanktop 2y ago
Also gotta wonder if he might have sent a cease and desist about that bio.
ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
Sounds like a case of sour grapes, on the part of Audioholics. He seems to have done fairly well for himself, since then.
- ocdtrekkie 2y ago
  It's really hard to tell without more detail! I tried doing a bit of digging, but he was a really early staffer to join Audioholics, and was editor-in-chief when he was fired. He's editor-in-chief of another site now, which it looks like he founded. You probably have to do something pretty bad to get publicly fired for cause when you were the editor-in-chief, and him having a new site he made himself isn't exactly an assurance of innocence either. Just... kinda a wild random footnote on a link on an article from over a decade ago.
  - IncreasePosts 2y ago
    From a bunch of digging it appears that, perhaps, Clint set up/joined some sites that were similar enough to his employers, without telling them, and when they found out they took that as him trying to siphon users off of their site, and fired him. If this is true, whether that was wrong of Clint to do or not would depend on his contract.
  - nkurz 2y ago
    I think the answer is that he set up another site called Audiogurus that was advertising itself as being "Audioholics store". This didn't go over well. Here's an article about that hints at it: https://www.audioholics.com/news/audioholics-e-store-name-change https://www.audioholics.com/news/audioholics-e-store-name-ch... And here's a thread about it, which is admittedly hard to read because the "Audioholics" has been replaced the words "Bad Robot": https://forums.audioholics.com/forums/threads/bad-robot.94519/ https://forums.audioholics.com/forums/threads/bad-robot.9451...
varenc 2y ago
at least they kept the articles up. I was pleasantly surprised that that ancient link still worked !

shermantanktop 2y ago

Also gotta wonder if he might have sent a cease and desist about that bio.

ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

Sounds like a case of sour grapes, on the part of Audioholics. He seems to have done fairly well for himself, since then.

ocdtrekkie 2y ago
It's really hard to tell without more detail! I tried doing a bit of digging, but he was a really early staffer to join Audioholics, and was editor-in-chief when he was fired. He's editor-in-chief of another site now, which it looks like he founded. You probably have to do something pretty bad to get publicly fired for cause when you were the editor-in-chief, and him having a new site he made himself isn't exactly an assurance of innocence either. Just... kinda a wild random footnote on a link on an article from over a decade ago.
- IncreasePosts 2y ago
  From a bunch of digging it appears that, perhaps, Clint set up/joined some sites that were similar enough to his employers, without telling them, and when they found out they took that as him trying to siphon users off of their site, and fired him. If this is true, whether that was wrong of Clint to do or not would depend on his contract.
- nkurz 2y ago
  I think the answer is that he set up another site called Audiogurus that was advertising itself as being "Audioholics store". This didn't go over well. Here's an article about that hints at it: https://www.audioholics.com/news/audioholics-e-store-name-change https://www.audioholics.com/news/audioholics-e-store-name-ch... And here's a thread about it, which is admittedly hard to read because the "Audioholics" has been replaced the words "Bad Robot": https://forums.audioholics.com/forums/threads/bad-robot.94519/ https://forums.audioholics.com/forums/threads/bad-robot.9451...

varenc 2y ago

at least they kept the articles up. I was pleasantly surprised that that ancient link still worked !