Of course we do. While MNSpeak started out as a community-building forum, leading to interesting dialog and even new friendships (which hopefully it still does, from time to time at least), we are now criticized for our hostile, insular, liberal tendencies (and a host of other “failures”) on a somewhat regular basis.
Today, I came across this post on Small Laws: “I’m reluctant to trace the stats back from this blog, you know, see where people are coming from and how they’re finding me, since any spike of unique visitors inevitably comes from a conversation where I’m being insulted in the Secrets of the City community. I’m less anxious to crack the lid on that tin of derision and libel, as it inevitably leads to a bad trip. Sparber may have 50,000 fans or whatever, but he has carefully cultivated one enemy.”
‘Tis a shame we’ve managed to make an enemy (surely more than one) somehow. (Or is it?) ‘Tis also a shame the writer has clearly not returned to MNSpeak or paid enough attention to know that we’ve lost our Sparber. Could this be the MNSpeak post that drove the writer away? Were we too harsh?
Latest comment — noodleman: @mary2: While I share your concern, I also understand that angry drunks, when agitated, will punch anyone and anything. IMO he was punching the dri...