On: Craig Newmark, the Principled Jerk

[ericd]

Hi Jeremy, thanks for writing about this. I actually think Craig has removed himself from the decision-making there, which probably explains the seeming conflict between his personality and the company's.

[samstave → ericd]

And it conveniently provides plausible deniability.

Regardless, it's craigs list and he can never be removed from us outsiders mentally connecting him with what CL does.

[ericd → samstave]

Yeah, I guess it might take a name change to get people to stop assuming that Craig is in charge.

[MaysonL → ericd]

He's in charge: he owns the place.

[jeremymims → ericd]

That's possible. However, if that's the case, I'm surprised Craig hasn't engaged at all on this issue. It would seem an awful lot of lousy stuff is happening in his name.

[ericd → jeremymims]

Yeah, I'm not sure why neither of them have been willing to talk, I think a lot of this could be sorted out really quickly without the lawyers.

[res0nat0r → ericd]

I think it is easily sorted out without the lawyers...stop using CL data on Padmapper. Problem solved. :)