As best as I can, I just want to correct the record on a few points that came up in a previous post by Steven D. We took the post down because of these errors.
Steve contacted me on April 15th, 2007 to inform me that he had written a letter to 6 A-List bloggers asking them to urge Markos to apologize for things he had written about Kathy Sierra. He said he hoped it would not cause a problem for me and offered to resign from the front-page if it did.
I responded by telling him “Whatever happens, I’ve got your back. I doubt that it will be much of a problem. But if it is, don’t worry about it.”
Steve contacted me again on April 17th to copy me onto a bit of an email flamewar he was having with one of the A-List bloggers he had contacted. After I received about six of these emails, I responded by saying, “I agree with you, xxxx’s being a dick. But I don’t want to be part of your disagreement with him. I’ve got your back on this, but it would be better if I wasn’t cc’ed on this flame war because it makes me feel like I should weigh in. Keep up the fight.”
This is the sum total of the email record of my involvement in this ancient episode.
There is no email record of Markos contacting me directly or indirectly to put any pressure on me about this subject or any other. Nor do I have any memory of this happening by phone or in person.
As far as I know, the substance of what was alleged in the prior piece simply did not happen.
In fairness to Steve, I had very little memory of this incident and had to check the records myself to reconstruct what may or may not have happened. Email records may not tell the complete story.
As far as I can surmise, however, I wasn’t pressured or threatened and I never showed anything but complete support for the stand that Steve was taking.
