Great article and perspective on the whole incident. I think I finally got a clear picture of the throw down last week in Beer Vs. Fish. Wow - sad news indeed.
It's true though, most people use social media to lash out because they think it's safe. It's not.
Marcus, well *chuckle* - we know, is Marcus. I don't even know what to say - his behavior towards Fish is expected because he behaves this way on the regular to just about any/every-one, and, not a lot of people can deal with him sadly.
Thick skin be damned, I think some folks may need adamantium laced skin to put up with Beer - but he's still a cool kat in some respective I guess and you could probably say the same about Fish.
I find it kind of funny that beer got his panties in a wad though that the developers did not want to comment back because a bone was thrown at them - he did not have to go there but then again Fish did not have to reply. No one was right ... ah well.
I don't think developers owe writers/editors anything and I don't think writers/editors owe them anything either. Imagine if we lived in a world where all creative properties (food, culinary arts, clothing designs, industrial designs, anything created with human ingenuity ... ) were beholden onto the response and opinion of another to merely exist? That would ... suck.
Yet I'm not saying that tit for tat can't exist - of course you can scratch my back so "maybe" I will scratch yours for the right reasons? Was there a rule that said that I had to? Was there one that said that you had to try and scratch mines in the first place? True, I may fail without you but could I just go out of the way to put my content out their and see what happens without your support? Think of all the gaming sites that started out this way? They must have said "f what everybody thinks; no one is looking out (yet) for us, so we're just gonna do this!"
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