Credit & Debt: CNet Vs. Casey Vs. "Haterz"

Peep this profile of the "most hated blogger alive," complete with comments from our old pal Robert Cote.

It's ironic--I wonder how much more traffic I could have generated for this blog if I'd jumped on the Serin hate train and devoted my posts to chronicling his misadventures. People thrive on negativity and controversy. Positive news is often boring. And certainly, given the deluge of crappy developments in the real estate market over the past two years, there was no small amount of negativity to go around.

But ultimately, what does it serve? Guys like Serin thrive on the attention and get money from the site hits. The "haterz" become so obssessed with criticizing Serin that they lose any interesting viewpoints of their own. And it doesn't change any root causes of why things like this happen in the first place.

It's really the Internet equivalent of the gladiatorial games--as guys get mauled for the crowd's amusement, we forget about the crumbling of the world beneath our feet.

Posted at May 15, 2007 11:29 AM

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Peep this profile of the "most hated blogger alive," complete with comments from our old pal Robert Cote. It's ironic--I wonder how much more traffic I could have generated for this blog if I'd jumped on the Serin hate train and devoted my posts to chronicling his misadventures. People thrive on negativity and controversy. Positive news is often boring. And certainly, given the deluge of crappy developments in the real estate market over the past two years, there was no small amount of negativity to go around. But ultimately, what does it serve? Guys like Serin thrive on the attention and get money from the site hits. The "haterz" become so obssessed with criticizing Serin that they lose any interesting viewpoints of their own. And it doesn't change any root causes of why things like this happen in the first place. It's really the Internet equivalent of the gladiatorial games--as guys get mauled for the crowd's amusement, we forget about the crumbling of the world beneath our feet.