Then, a few weeks back, the site unwittingly got caught in the middle of some silliness that exploded and threatened to go viral, when an amateur blogger in a snit wrote a blog claiming censorship by Schmitz, who had evidently deleted some comments the blogger had posted to the Linux Advocates site.
I had a good chuckle. I was glad it was Schmitz and not me in the middle of it – and reminded myself again of my policy to not delete comments no matter how idiotic, unless they cross certain rude, untasteful and offensive thresholds. You know, sticks and stones and all that. Schmitz handled it well. He penned a kiss-and-make-up reply, that was also published by the folks at Techrights – much to the chagrin of the self-styled rough trade crowd on the forums who thrive on flame wars.