Comments on: I won’t be your April fool

By: Person C

Person C — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:10:06 +0000

I’m so confused.

By: Jim Allen

Jim Allen — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:01:58 +0000

“Presumably no one googling Meredith will find the full text of her last darn that dream post, either. People are still aware of it.”

What happened to the latest “Darn that dream” post?

By: Jason Griffey

Jason Griffey — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:08:18 +0000

Meredith, I think you need to enlist the help of the XKCD guy:

http://www.xkcd.com/406/

You’re so completely in the right here, AND you have been far, far more patient and calm than I would have been. Don’t sweat this.

By: joshua m. neff

joshua m. neff — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:35:25 +0000

Meredith has been nothing but professional this whole time. She hasn’t been the least bit condescending. And she’s shown far more patience that I would’ve shown if this were my blog. And calling someone “Person A” and “Person B” isn’t anything close to “unmasking” someone. I haven’t a clue who she’s talking about, and no amount of Googling would help me on this. This whole situation is absurd. Someone here is being extremely unprofessional, and it sure ain’t Meredith.

By: Felicity

Felicity — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:24:39 +0000

Meredith,

I know Will doesn’t “have it in for” you. Your condescending and unprofessional response to him doesn’t change the fact that you seem to want to have it both ways. You publicly called this person out, and then want to act as if you didn’t. I can’t imagine anyone would fault the unmasking, so why act as though that’s not what’s going on?

By: Iris

Iris — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:18:47 +0000

I’d just like to point out that regular readers of this blog *can’t* necessarily figure out who persons A and B are. Perhaps if everyone read all the same blogs, and if everyone always read all the comments on those blogs, maybe then they’d be able to figure it out. But there are lots of us who’d never figure it out, our librarianish Google skills notwithstanding. And you know what, I don’t even CARE who it is. It doesn’t matter. What does matter is that it happened and that it shouldn’t have.

By: Emily C

Emily C — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:54:22 +0000

Wow, that sucks. I think you’re totally right about most of the people in the library blogging community being honest and well-meaning. Even when we don’t all agree, there is a lot of good intention out there. But it only takes that one bad apple trying to get away with crap like this…

Calling the person out in an overt way is something that’s totally up to you. I don’t know what I’d do in this situation. There is a lot to be said for what you’ve talked about – just putting it behind you.

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:39:50 +0000

What Meredith said. Whatever William. If that person had pulled this crap on my blog, his name would be on the front page. She did something a bit more subtle because she is a nicer person than I am.

Person A should have thought about this before Person A concocted Sock Puppet B. To Hell with person A.

By: Meredith Farkas

Meredith Farkas — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:21:56 +0000

As I said in my post, William, my first reaction was to call the person out very publicly. I chose not to do that, but to make it clear that things like this go on and that it will not be tolerated on *this* blog. I did not do it to purposely hurt that person (because clearly, their response to my email was not what I’d hoped to hear). If I had written this to hurt the person, it would have been a very different post, but I chose not to. It doesn’t make me a better person than if I had done it, but I feel much better about the choice I made.

I know a lot of people like you who like to argue every little point until you get the other person to admit that you’re right. I used to be like that, but I realized that I’d rather be nice than always be right (I also realized that there were more important things in life to get worked up over). That’s what this post was about too; not overtly naming the person even if that person may have deserved it (and that’s debatable too). I wasn’t pretending anything, but there’s quite literally nothing I’m going to say or do that will convince you of that. This post was about putting this behind me; the deception bothered me a lot and I really struggled with how to handle it. If you want to attack what I did or what I said, go ahead, but I will not take part.

By: William

William — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:11:42 +0000

Steve,

Presumably no one googling Meredith will find the full text of her last darn that dream post, either. People are still aware of it.

Each reader of this blog is a potential employer. I don’t know Meredith, and I don’t know A. Yet I could easily identify A from her post. Do you honestly believe many others will have trouble piecing this together?

On Twitter, Meredith wrote:

I’ll see if the person gets back to me and offers some sort of explanation. If not, I think a call-out may be in order.

That’s what this post is, a public call-out. Why pretend it’s not?

You write:

Those who are feeling lost now are none the wiser, and those who don’t know anything about this situation but know the person in question aren’t likely to find out about it from this post.

If true, why post at all?