Okay, so overall the whole 'first mean comment' controversy was good for the stats. Between March 18 and April 17th I had 547 visitors who looked at an average of 2 pages each. Our web consultant Andreas parsed the numbers and informed me that although absolute hits went up and stayed up, new visitors declined. In other words, I'm developing a regular readership but the 'controversy' failed to bring in new eyeballs.

Anyway, it generated discussion and debate, which was fun to be part of and is hopefully a sign of things to come. (See the debate between Janine and Mark M.) Looking back over those comments I realized that somewhere in the midst of this whole discussion I picked up a real 'mean' comment : "No offence, but you are a boring man. Do you have nothing better to do than writing a lot of BS? Go get a job." The comment was by "anonymous". Anonymous obviously has no idea what a great blog is all about. Get stuffed, buddy! Ah..that felt good. Seriously, though, the comment doesn't bother me in the least. Anonymous is irrelevant. If you aren't willing to put your name to your opinion then what you say won't ever matter. Anonymous is probably my brother.

Okay the very fact that I just felt the need to upbraid Anonymous suggests that maybe his comment does bother me. Is it true? Am I boring? Whatever dude. Seriously. Get a job.