<story><title>Sendgrid is down</title><url>http://support.sendgrid.com/entries/23417077-21-Mar-Website-Down-Refusing-Mail</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grey-area</author><text>I&apos;m sad to see that HN is being used as a platform for this sort of demagogy, and sad that stories about this tawdry little tale are indiscriminately voted up above other stories which are far more interesting.&lt;p&gt;DDOS of a mailing service that lots of websites rely on because a completely unrelated company decided to fire someone is not an occasion for &lt;i&gt;lol&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;schadenfreude&lt;/i&gt; as some posters here would have it. As a method of justice it has more in common with a lynch mob than a court of law - this isn&apos;t going to get the guy&apos;s job back, and it certainly isn&apos;t going to teach anyone a lesson, apart from that the internet is fickle, and monumentally stupid. But I very much doubt the people behind this attack are interested in justice or truly care about the man who lost his job, they&apos;re just doing it for the lolz and are punishing the internet at large over a silly little dispute at a tech conference.&lt;p&gt;Congratulations to the mob, I guess; it has shown its power, if not any sense of discrimination or proportionality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kybernetyk</author><text>Now you can argue as much as you want - but the (sad) truth is that mob mentality exists and we will have to deal with it for at least the next few centuries.&lt;p&gt;This should be a lesson for companies that hire highly confrontational people as their official community representatives.&lt;p&gt;Yes, in a perfect world there shouldn&apos;t be DDOS&apos; and other attacks because of a tweet about an immature joke but it&apos;s not a perfect world and we should be very wary what personalities we hire to represent us.&lt;p&gt;As much as I don&apos;t like it - the &quot;right&quot; thing for sengrid would be to replace their &apos;developer evangelist&apos; with someone who&apos;s less confrontational. Yes, it sucks. But as businesses we have to deal with reality.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sendgrid is down</title><url>http://support.sendgrid.com/entries/23417077-21-Mar-Website-Down-Refusing-Mail</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grey-area</author><text>I&apos;m sad to see that HN is being used as a platform for this sort of demagogy, and sad that stories about this tawdry little tale are indiscriminately voted up above other stories which are far more interesting.&lt;p&gt;DDOS of a mailing service that lots of websites rely on because a completely unrelated company decided to fire someone is not an occasion for &lt;i&gt;lol&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;schadenfreude&lt;/i&gt; as some posters here would have it. As a method of justice it has more in common with a lynch mob than a court of law - this isn&apos;t going to get the guy&apos;s job back, and it certainly isn&apos;t going to teach anyone a lesson, apart from that the internet is fickle, and monumentally stupid. But I very much doubt the people behind this attack are interested in justice or truly care about the man who lost his job, they&apos;re just doing it for the lolz and are punishing the internet at large over a silly little dispute at a tech conference.&lt;p&gt;Congratulations to the mob, I guess; it has shown its power, if not any sense of discrimination or proportionality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lewton</author><text>Sometimes something happens where posts on hacker news are part of the debacle[1] and it results in an influx of new users.
I don&apos;t want to sound like an old coot, but I&apos;m a bit concerned about the type of user this thing has been attracting&lt;p&gt;[1] in this case, the guy who was called out for the jokes, posted in a comment on here that he was fired</text></comment>