Soup

Rac*elle Hru*ka, Because I'm Not That Big Of An Asshole

spiers:

youngmanhattanite:

What the fuck happened today? Back off Soup (though, Jeff: nice). Did you know that every time we really fuckin’ get into it (which happens quite often) we take it to the backchannel to duke it out? So: he doesn’t know shit about online advertising. Neither do I. Neither do most of us. I don’t know shit about plenty of things, many of which people are nice enough to point out in private, the REAL assholes who take it to my comments threads on Gawker (THANK YOU, ANTHONY. AND NIC. AND ALL THE ALTBROS I THOUGHT WERE MY FRIENDZ) or who use my full name in the title of their blog posts to help add something to the conversation when my name gets Googled. Anyway, unless he works in online advertising, school him in a bar or something. If he does work in online advertising? Nail’im to the fuckin’ wall. Them’s my rules.

FEK, dude, Soup brought it up. And not in a bar. On his Tumblr. And directed his question to five people specifically, one of whom was me. No one was arbitrarily spouting random commentary about online advertising in his direction. If someone asks me a question over email, I respond over email. If in a bar, I respond in a bar. If on Tumblr, I respond Tumblr, because that’s where I assume (reasonably, I think) the other person wants to have the conversation. (I mean, Soup could email me!)

Also, I don’t think there was any schooling going on. He asked a question and it got answered.

It’s all good. I appreciate the concern, Foster, but I asked the question, as Elizabeth said. I posted it on tumblr because I wanted anyone who had an opinion on the matter to chime in. I was asking to be schooled.