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Lesson of the day: when you write a very provocative post, be prepared for the responses. This particular one from a Microsoft person wonders about a certain coincidence, and then attracts a handful of equally provocative comments back. While I'm browsing it and I hit reload, the article disappears. Then reappears (slightly edited, I think) when I hit reload again a few moments later, all 18 comments gone. All this in the last ten to twenty minutes.
Coincidence? Do I think this was just a coincidence
? I think not.
Second lesson: if you play with fire, you'll be burnt. Oops indeed. I'm not making any comments about the content of the diary posting myself -- anyone with schoolboy or schoolgirl experience (or any playground wisdom, really) should know this.
Updates, 12:48: Mark Derricutt saved the comments in his diary, while I get Ping 'http://blogs.msdn.com/joestagner/services/trackbacks/154867.aspx' failed: Sorry couldn't find a relevant link in http://hydro.electric.gen.nz/pub/self/diary/tphse/archives/000114.html
from the Microsoft person's diary software. How rather odd. Maybe it's a 'coincidence'. Spooky. Oh wait... hold on, there's more as I type this. I see that he says a couple of folks did as I expected and dropped by to offer personal insults and name calling
. Sure that this were the case, but deleting the whole lot seems a bit heavy handed. They weren't all flames or porn comment spam, right? Hopefully, however, his genuinely meant message doesn't get lost in all the backlash (back and forth, that is), which appears to be that dodgy hacker people are costing everybody, not just a certain software company that makes a certain operating system. I think that's his point.
Comments
Hey Jonathan, you can find the missing comments reposted here. I just so happened to be reading the same page at the right time :)
Posted by: Mark Derricutt | June 15, 2004 12:38 AM
Hey Mark,
Looks like your comment's URL didn't make it. While I get around to looking in to that, I've put it in the updated entry, anyway.
Thanks!
Posted by: Jonathan Ah Kit | June 15, 2004 1:05 AM