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This makes me think about that TechCrunchee getting spit on the face... I'd now like to get the spitter's side of the story.
by tarmac 18y ago
This makes me think about that TechCrunchee getting spit on the face...
I'd now like to get the spitter's side of the story.
- jrockway 18y agoI think the idea is that in order for your startup to succeed, you need TechCrunch to like it. The spitter probably got a bad review. (Anyway, I don't think this is important. Very few people with money to spend have ever heard of TechCrunch. Their opinion mostly matters in the VC echo chamber, not in the real world.)
- jm4 18y agoTechCrunch is awful, but there's no excuse for the spit in the face incident. I don't give a damn what lousy, fabricated article TechCrunch might have published to precipitate that. It's disgusting and totally uncalled for.
- vaksel 18y agowho knows if that really happened, or if Arrington was just linkbaiting to make money
- jm4 18y agoI don't know if it really happened. I don't much care, either. But if I remember correctly, the title of the article in question was 'Some Things Need to Change'. That's hardly linkbait. The linkbait accusation is also a little odd coming from someone who submits practically every linkbait TechCrunch article that shows up in the RSS feed.
- unalone 18y agoDon't treat Arrington like some soulless mythical creature. He's a real person. He's susceptible to being offended enough to get pissed off at people and to rant even when he's been in the business for a long time. Can you imagine how low you'd have to be to fake an incident like that just to get a few hits? Arrington has his faults, but he's not a showboater. (Also remember that this article was posted while he's taking a break from TechCrunch entirely. Don't blame him for this story.)
- vaksel 18y agoyes, but don't you think if someone spit on you, that you would have at least chased them down to kick their ass? I mean the guy must have been pretty close to land a hit.
- unalone 18y agoI'll assume Arrington is a nerd, like me, and that he's not the sort of person who'd kick anybody's ass. Frankly, I think that people who react to aggression with more aggression are wasting their time and looking pretty stupid.
- vaksel 18y agoNot as stupid as the guy covered in someone's possibly HIV infected spit.
- unalone 18y agoI fail to see how HIV came into this conversation.
- vaksel 18y agoyou never know what the other person has, doesn't hurt to be careful in this day and age
- unalone 18y agoRight now you're espousing rampant paranoia. First you suggest that he would make up a story like this despite no precedent on his part at all. Then you say that the proof is that he didn't react violently to somebody spitting on him. Then you say that he's stupid for not doing that because the spitter might have been HIV-positive. I live in a world where people are innocent until proven guilty, people are all generally trying to do the right thing, the average man on the street doesn't like physically hitting other people, and most people don't have deadly diseases, and that the ones that do don't spit.
- Aleran 18y agoDon't people realize that more than one person writes for TechCrunch. Erick Schonfeld was the sole author of the Last.fm TechCrunch article. Arrington had nothing to do with it and is still on vacation.
- captainobvious 18y agoArrington hired him and could fire him.
- giles_bowkett 18y ago<i>TechCrunch is awful, but there's no excuse for the spit in the face incident.</i> that's silly. I swallowed some water but there was a fly in the water somehow, it was wriggling, so I reflexively spat and your face just happened to be there. that's just one of many great excuses for spitting in somebody's face. more seriously, there might or might not be any excuse for it, but if you thought it was anything but a matter of time, that's unrealistic. the appropriate response is just blogging that they're full of shit, but inappropriate responses still fit in an overall system of cause and effect.
- giles_bowkett 18y agohtml fail arrrgh
- katamole 18y agoUse asterisks instead :)