Kelly Smith | Made in Seattle

So I wake up early this morning to check my email and see yet another few dozen emails on the PixelSurgeon topic. As you might guess, most are pretty much hate spam. Much to my surprise though, there were actually several pretty nice (and funny) ones. There are some decent folks out there. I’ll continue to keep my personal email up for those of you who want to fire away. Here are a few of the nicer excerpts:

“Kelly, we outsource stuff all the time (Rentacoder etc.) and until now I hadn’t really given this issue much thought. Still, Linus Torvalds gives us Linux, WordPress and Drupal are free and there is all this BS over this one page? There’s nothing even on it! Crap for Javascript. No DHTML. No Ajax. Ultra basic layout. Based on the comments I saw these guys are all out of their minds with this.”

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“I love how the guy tries to trash your reputation before talking to you and then (sort of) apologizes later. Glad you posted his response. Its speaks for itself doesn’t it?”

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“…he copied the general info mailbox of a venture capitalist with this. I suspect they won’t be funding his next big idea. Pretty juvenile…”

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“Nice. You’ve got every shred of personal information on your site including a telephone number and instead they take potshots on a bunch of forums rather than contact you about it? Chickensh$ts…” (Actually, he or someone did call my phone once. The call went like this: ring. hello, this is kelly. Caller: “you suck”. Click. Then dialtone. No joke. Not sure if chickensh$t is the right term or not but readers can decide.)

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“You’re probably not all that bothered and its inconvinient mainly, but just to let you know we don’t all have this mob mentality.”

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Anyway, thanks for the decent comments guys (and gal). You know who you are.

We need a new govt special ops force just for web terrorists. Yea. That’s it…