I couldn't find a peep about the meeting in TSA's blog. I find it ludicrous that they can boot a top tier expert without enough time to replace him by anyone that could bring similar points to the discussion.
I think you're confused. Their blog is not an information-dissemination service, it is a marketing instrument.
You would've gotten the same message across without also insulting vgnet by omitting that first sentence.
What? People get confused. I get confused. You get confused (as evidenced by this post). Everybody gets confused, just like everybody poops.
Nobody's actually confused. He did not literally mean to say anyone was confused. He's essentially saying "you were naive to think this blog was more than a marketing channel".
KwanEsq explained exactly what I intended with my introduction.
He's not actually insulting him. The first sentence is ironic, because vgnet isn't actually confused, he just has reasonable expectations. It actually serves to further insult the TSA, and is a fairly common phrasing in these sort of comments (at least in physical conversation, perhaps it's less advisable through the medium of the web).
We need the ability to upvote and downvote specific sentences!
Every comment ought to be a file in a git repo, so that we can send pull requests.
I've previously considered some kind of social website built around the idea of annotating arbitrary sections of existing content instead of replying postwise. I can't help but suspect it'd deteriorate into a Derrida-esque anarchy of words, though.
Isn't that basically Wikipedia?
Well, in WP you can edit what other people have put up, too. I think the closest existent website to what I had in mind is http://everything2.com (WARNING: massive time sink).
I guess if anybody is to confirm that it's in fact a circus, it'll be the TSA themselves. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.