Caleb Giddings (no links for dicks) recently and insultingly challenged the professionalism of Erin Palette.
Mr Giddings, you want to know what professionals who make a factual error do when that error is pointed out?
They publish a retraction.
Know what they don't do?
They don't send the original post down the memory hole and pretend that it doesn't exist.
Here is the original link:
Update:
Notice the 404 error? Me too! And it's not missing because of a format change because posts before it and after it are still extant.
Nice try, Mr Giddings, in restoring the post but not the comments. You made it worse on yourself. There were 38 comments, as can be seen in the webarchive link below.
Luckily; Erin found the post in the archives.
Wait, I've seen this brand of professionalism before, Mr Giddings. The Mainstream Media does this sort of thing a rather lot. Congratulations! You're a real live journalist now!
As an aside: I remember when Mr Giddings was "hiring" for writers at his site. The terms were imaginatively draconian. You'd be out of pocket for anything you reviewed, and could be assigned to review something without being compensated for the purchase by Mr Giddings. You'd be paid for the writing, of course, but not compensated for buying the item he assigned you to review. Then there was the bait and switch from being "hired" as a writer and the requirement to be a video reviewer.
Update 2:
It also occurs to me that professionals don't swing by other people's web sites demanding that they be more professional in the comments.
Mr Giddings, you want to know what professionals who make a factual error do when that error is pointed out?
They publish a retraction.
Know what they don't do?
They don't send the original post down the memory hole and pretend that it doesn't exist.
Here is the original link:
Update:
Nice try, Mr Giddings, in restoring the post but not the comments. You made it worse on yourself. There were 38 comments, as can be seen in the webarchive link below.
Luckily; Erin found the post in the archives.
Wait, I've seen this brand of professionalism before, Mr Giddings. The Mainstream Media does this sort of thing a rather lot. Congratulations! You're a real live journalist now!
As an aside: I remember when Mr Giddings was "hiring" for writers at his site. The terms were imaginatively draconian. You'd be out of pocket for anything you reviewed, and could be assigned to review something without being compensated for the purchase by Mr Giddings. You'd be paid for the writing, of course, but not compensated for buying the item he assigned you to review. Then there was the bait and switch from being "hired" as a writer and the requirement to be a video reviewer.
Update 2:
It also occurs to me that professionals don't swing by other people's web sites demanding that they be more professional in the comments.