[philwelch]

I suspect many people would still have no idea what Arrington's personality is in person, and thus continue to judge him entirely based upon the behavior of TechCrunch. How he greets people in person probably has no real impact.

This can extend even further--from everything I've gathered, George W. Bush is a very easy person to like once you know him in person. Yet he was very recently one of the most widely despised people in the world. Your actual personality doesn't seem to matter once you start doing things people don't like, or otherwise become famous outside people who know you in person.

[pg]

I didn't say people only dislike him because of the way he seems in person. How could all the random people who complain about him in comment threads have met him in person?

[netsp]

I'm hope I don't appear to be trolling or taking things out of context, but it did sort of sound like that, especially if one is skimming:

I offend people by writing. And I do it the same way Michael offends people in person:

[pg]

Ok, I tweaked that bit to avoid confusing people.