It's been a couple months now, and despite the best efforts of Madison and Dawn to act like nothing happened, Veronica (AKA MoxiePop) is still out of a job. Madison still hasn't apologized for her unfounded accusation of identity theft that started the whole debacle. Dawn still hasn't apologized for whipping up another one of her patented vitriolic flamewars across several blogs' comments, yelling at anybody she couldn't drag into it, and attracting some creepy cyberstalkers who fanned the flames by imitating various combatants (and non-combatants) and putting words in their mouths.
Worst of all, they seem totally unconcerned that one of those still-unknown cyberstalkers took it upon him- or herself to fax Veronica's boss and get her fired. If somebody did that on my behalf, whether or not I knew about it beforehand, I'd feel pretty bad about it. I'd publicly condemn it, I'd reveal who did it if I knew (or, if I didn't, I'd call on the culprit to step forward), and I'd try to make amends in some way. Maybe Madison and Dawn figure if they keep their heads firmly in the sand, sooner or later everybody will forget what they started and how serious the consequences were. Normally I'd say that shutting up is good advice for both of them, but in this case it just makes them look even worse.
Posted by Jim Treacher at August 11, 2003 06:42 PM