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Caught this comment on the 37Signals site this morning:

If you don’t know what Spinfree is, nay was, you are considered “new� here, thus, you should have listened twice as much as you spoke.

Since you couldn’t figure that out for yourselves, 37S is teaching you how to keep quiet.

Go start your writeboards, 37sucks.com, whatever… a community of trolls spewing venom sounds like a great place to visit. I stopped reading 37S because of the comments, now I can finally return.

For all of you that think 37Signals is a design company, that became a product company, think again. They started off building filemaker apps before HTML tables existed.

They are true pioneers, for many of us, they’ve been around since the beginning (before clear spacer gifs…) don’t think for a minute that the people here are fanboys because they respect the sustained creativity.

“Always there will be, along the sidelines of life, inferior souls who throw mud at those whose attainments they do not quite understand. The man who really accomplishes doesn’t pay attention to such detractors. If he did, he’d be on their level. He keeps an eye singled on the higher goal—and the mud never touches him.�
~ Jerome P. Fleishman

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Why point this out? I guess I’m trying to figure out the whole fanboy/kool-aid drinker phenomenon… How do people get to the point of ignoring everything except what they want to believe? 37Signals, as far as I know, is no longer a design company. This guy truly believes that they do this for him, and that he is special because he has been reading for a long time. The arrogance of this plays out when he states that now that his comment has been seen that the comment can now be closed… Sad.

I can imagine this guy crying as he read comment after comment…

Oh, YEAH! Take a big gulp buddy… You are a winner!