Derek Powazek didn’t do professional Web development –as an industry– a favor. Sebastian's answer to Dereck Powazek
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Sebastian - tonight, you're my hero. Yes I've had 4 glasses of wine, but still. xx
Kalena, I'd better never p*ss in your roses to end up on your dumb*ss throne :) http://www.ask-kalena.com/seo/dumbass-of-the-week-derek-powazek/ And Thanks for sphinning, Sammy!
Derek Powazek posted a lame excuse to the SEO community, not even vaguely passing any BS detector.
"To the people out there doing good work for real clients under the auspices of SEO: I’m sorry. I lumped you in with the bastards because I thought of what you did as web development, not SEO. I cast too wide a net and caught some good fish in there with the bad. I apologize."
I don't see that as lame, Sebastian. I see that as an olive branch and more. Would be nice if folks actually thanked him for that. He could have easily taken another route.
Danny, you're right looking at the message you've quoted above (alone). When I read his post yesterday it summarized itself as "sorry folks, but I was right in the first place". That's why I've called it a lame excuse. Because he hadn't got the balls to post just one sentence like "I f*cked up" without lots of yadda yadda yadda to nebulize his withdrawal.
Anyway, today I'm a day older and there's really no need to beat a dead horse. Reading his "Let's all be friends" apology again, I hereby take back the "lame" part.
Yay on the apology and him understanding the difference between SEO and search engine spam!