After Some Reflection

For the last few weeks I've found myself lashing out unfairly on issues, comments etc online. The latest was my previous post about the Fedora Ambassador Threethirty. It wasn't done for hits on the site, it wasn't done out of malice but it was an attack. It was unfair and the comments I got on it made that clear. I shouldn't need comments to point out what I should have seen but that was how it panned out on this occasion.

In the comments he mentioned Google hits, which got me wondering how best to redress this. Is it better not to let Google index it by unpublishing or deleting it? This will appear that I am trying to cover the evidence, which I am not. For now I've simply unpublished it, it can be reversed at any time complete with the comments and my responses to them.

Yes I was wrong, but I stand accountable for my posts, even the ones that don't show me in a good light. So if there's a better way to do this, I am open to suggestions.

This has left me rather ashamed of my behavior, but at least it's drawn attention to the fact that I have to address it in order that I try not to do it again. Part of my frustration is that I have several things I plan to do but seem unable to get started on any of them for various reasons. I need to step back from real time chat for a bit to be able to concentrate and start these projects.

I have already apologized to Threethirty in a response to his comment in the now unpublished post, as well as on Identi.ca. I echo that apology here too.