[dfranke]

I'm fairly sure it's the comment thread that I started (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=831461) which set off this essay, so I guess I'm the archetype of "ordinarily calm people who go berserk when [Arrington's] name comes up in comment threads". But if your explanation of my psychology is correct, then why don't I go berserk at you as well? I've disagreed with a few of your essays, and by and large pointed out those disagreements in these comment threads, but I've never disagreed violently with any of them. My beef with Arrington is that he writes a gossip tabloid. Nothing more, nothing less.

[iamwil]

The essay is less about arrington berserkers than it is about why pg writes the way he does, even though the discovery started off as a question about arrington berserkers.

[babyshake]

I agree. One of the common traits of a 'discovery' essay is you don't end up answering the question you asked.

And I should mention that the reason I don't like Mike involves a very poor way he treated someone I know.