Heya Seth

Congrats on some long awaited vindication! Here's a link to some of the blow-by-blow as this was unfolding:

http://slashdot.org/~M.C.%20Hampster/journal/97230

Good riddance to bad rubish! Sad as it is, slashdot editors set the stage wrt many tech advocacy issues.

Having such a wanton and mealy mouthed jerk in that position of influence was intolerable.

I just found out about Michael getting canned today and it is indeed great news. I had a feeling that when Michael got his own section (Politics) that bad things would happen to him.

The greatest thing is knowing how bitter he is that he will never, ever have such a large audience to spew his bile.

Remember - the best revenge is a life well lived.

Of course, part of living well is seeing abusers of trust and betrayers of friends get their ass handed to them.

It what you call *real* slashdot karma.

Thanks for the kind words.

But note, as far as I know, these events had nothing to do with the domain-hijack of Censorware Project, or the attacks on me. Slashdot _de facto_ backed Michael Sims through everything he did there, per above.

Practically, I can't ever "live well" with regard to free-speech activism, and that's a shame. :-(

wow. the amazing thing here is how small the fulltime staff at slashdot has shrunk -- apparently the business model is not working. When I was on the sourceforge side there were three times that many full-time editors. I'm guessing Sims was canned for financial reasons.

I never did like the tone or quality of Michael's posts. They always seemed a bit too self aggrandizing. R

Here's one version of what happened

R

R: I don't think that story is true.

See: Slashdot "Editor Upgrade" Updates