I hate it when Mommy and Daddy fight.
That is, if the Mommy is Valerie D'Orazio and Daddy is Kevin Church.
There is a bit of a feud going on, well, if you can call Kevin's sniping at Valerie in his blog here and in the blind item here a "feud".
Why can't we all get along? I mean, seriously, why can't we all get along? Is there some reason why, Kevin, that out of the blue, twice in the same week, you make snippy posts concerning Val's website? Is there some reason why Chris "I loves me some kicks to the face in my comics" Sims comes of sounding like a humorless anger monger in the comments? Or that Mike Sterling tells another commenter to "piss off"? Is there some insidious secret about Val that these folks know that I, the casual reader of her blog, don't?
I'm serious about this. I read each of the above bloggers daily, and enjoy all of what I read. So, I really can't understand the sniping. I think it is more than a bit unwarranted, which leads me to believe that there is a story behind the story.
Granted, Val's locking down her comments after a a rugby scrum with a poster, which Church mentioned in the blind item, was a bit harsh. I mean, the guy didn't seem overly trollish. I wondered at the time if there wasn't a history between Val and the poster. But Church's response was equally as harsh. He essentially called her a glory hog (which was a bit of a pot/kettle situation.)
And the latest, where Church points out the similarities between a post of hers about getting better hits for your website from search engines and a post of his about getting better hits for your website from search engines. I think this is ticky tacky. Because, trust me, no one would want to plagarize a post about getting better hits for your website from search engines. And, I'd imagine, that there are only a limited amount of ways to get better hits for your websites from search engine, so there would be carry over in any post.
But seriously, I want to know why three bloggers I enjoy reading have a beef with a fourth blogger I enjoy reading. Can't someone get to the bottom of this?
I suggested the commenter could "piss off" because his comment was trollish and stupid. I've had some free-floating hostility today, and unleashing a bit of it on a comments-troll on a friend's site made me feel a little better. Shallow and immature, maybe, and probably ineffective, but what can you do?
ReplyDeleteIt had nothing to do with my feelings, one way or the other, about what's-her-name.
Okay, cool. Your comment wasn't as harsh as Mr. Sims and it was aimed at that guy who did seem a bit trollish.
ReplyDeleteBut, and I am being serious and not sarcastic about this, thank you for explaining your side. I read your site every day, and enjoy the heck out of it. I really appreciate hearing your side.
I read the new comments on Kevin's site and it seems that his comments against Val aren't meant to be personal. I guess that's better. I just get all discombobulated when my internet idols fight.