Please read my posts again and make your own conclusion.

Sam

P.S I didn’t organise Le Web or the politicians nor did I make the wifi fail or call people an asshole.

This is why we need Loic to legislate on comment deletion issues.

See, this was always going to be a danger with the ease at which blogging and commenting makes publishing on the internerd.

I think it’s time we examined the perceived etiquette of posting all comments and posts and not editing them etc etc.

I personally think there’s too much crap on the internet and maybe everybody should get more brutal about what they allow to be posted to their blog - both in posts and in comments.

If it adds value post it, if it doesn’t delete it.
So, Tom I guess what I’m saying is you should delete this comment

I’m not arguing one side or the other of this issue by the way, just ranting about the issues it raises.

All the same to use this issue as an example, if Loic wants to call someone an asshole he should probably use the phone. Failing that he should do it on his own site. If his comment doesn’t add value to the post I think I’d be in favour of deleting it, while being open to the posting of negative comments which are reasoned rather than personal (I realise Arrington’s motives were most likely different).

Was there, in fact, a policy in place at TechCrunch UK regarding the deletion of posts and comments?

You know what? Forget I asked, let’s everybody suck it up and move on. It’s between an employee and his employer - if I understand correctly, so let them sort it out and let’s all get on with our own lives.

The blogosphere is becoming so much navelgazing and infighting these days. And here I am contributing to it. So that’s me done on the matter.

This is on par with Tim O’Reily trying to stop you from running the non for profit, low cost conference in Cork

I think this is a sad day for blogging in general and leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.

Are these guys getting too big for their boots?