The Irony is Thick
After ragging on “Web 2.0″ companies for not managing their infrastructure and growth properly, I put up a brief note acknowledging that we were having uptime issues.
By “issues” I meant that average uptime for the month had slipped below 99.5% (just). Truth be told, it was the highest amount of uptime we’d had since we started, but that’s besides the point. The post has brought the naysayers out of the woodwork.
I figured I’d acknowledge this, since it’s both hurtful and funny. I’ve been called all manner of swear words today, been told I should be fired, been told I don’t deserve to ever run a company ever again and had a private email saying if the individual was an investor they’d “chop off my legs” (I’m guessing they’re not a VC-style investor but some other, less savory, kind).
Here are a few of the posts about this:
Jack of All Blogs
Blog Network Watch.net
WadBlog
POSTED IN: Blogging, Business, Ensight News, b5media
9 opinions for The Irony is Thick
Cowboy
Dec 6, 2005 at 11:35 pm
Didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. Just my way of presenting news. Although there are a lot of things I would have done differently with B5. But its not mine.
Jeremy Wright
Dec 6, 2005 at 11:42 pm
Naw, wasn’t hurt by your response mate. Some others (emailed and comments and other posts) have been far, far worse. Not that yours wasn’t brutal ;-)
Duncan
Dec 7, 2005 at 12:39 am
How do the sayings go: what hurts you and you survive only makes you stronger, or something like that. I wouldn’t worry about it J.
Abe
Dec 7, 2005 at 5:48 am
IWhat does not kill you will only make you stronger.
John (SYNTAGMA)
Dec 7, 2005 at 7:56 am
If you’re open about your business you’ll always get detractors as well as supporters. The detractors generally write out of their own psychological flaws, so are not really addressing the issues at all. If they were truly interested, they would make helpful suggestions. But they’re only venting a spleen that really has nothing to do with you.
Ignore them. Stay open. Be brave. Your supporters will soon outnumber your detractors.
Jon
Dec 7, 2005 at 12:49 pm
We all know this, but I’ll state it again. After 6 months of podcasting and over a year of blogging, I’ve learned one simple truth: when you put yourself out there, people will take shots at you. It’s one of the less evolved parts of the human condition.
Cowboy’s post was a surprisingly easy read for me. Whenever I get called out in the blogosphere, it’s always caused some pretty strong reaction on my part. Generally when I get taken to task its because I’ve done something wrong or something embarassing and reading about it brings all those emotions back to the surface again. I usually splutter about it for a day and every time I think about it I get that hot flush running up the back of my neck and I can’t stop thinking about how to respond.
That didn’t occur at all with Cowboy’s post. It was an almost dispassionate letdown. That tells me that he doesn’t have a point, or at least not one with enough truth in it to cause any reaction on my part. The only part of his post that even remotely concerns me is the use of the word splog. Attacking someone’s downtime is the work of a rank amateur. It’s the tired old tactic of pretending that foresight is as common as hindsight. Standing on the corner pointing and jeering ‘didn’t you see that coming? Huh? You shoulda’ is…what…childish? A suitable word escapes me at the moment.
And then to purport to know Darren yet fail to understand why he hasn’t responded to the post during the wee hours of Darren’s morning? No…perhaps childish is the right word.
I’m glad this turned out the way it did. Cowboy’s failure to elicit a predictable emotional response from me shows that he’s way off the mark. I guess this is backwards confirmation.
Patrick
Dec 7, 2005 at 2:31 pm
Lots of pinheads out there.
Dave
Dec 7, 2005 at 7:50 pm
Yeah but i re-hired you today after we talked. Of course that does not mean i won’t sack you tommorow ;)
Nandini
Dec 8, 2005 at 3:52 am
Jeremy, this all seems a bit funny to me.. When people are so desperate to get anything against you, they start digging up things. I have been enjoying few blogs of b5media and downtime doesn`t seems to bother me much…
Maybe I am in a different time zone altogether or I don`t have time to check every hour and minute to see if b5media is down.
My .02 cents.. Ignore the brickheads.