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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hope GOMI is proud of itself for pursuing and mocking this lady.  Remember how mad GOMI was 10 years ago that MOMS were making money off the INTERNET by telling their STORIES about raising their children?!  And how awful Alice thought it was that women were asking readers for donations, and then Alice asked her readers for donations (and got them, while also policing their website emails and deleting the accounts of people who wrote bad things about her - I was never a member but that's what I saw on reddit)?

Please don't read GOMI and don't support Alice.  Follow or don't follow who you want, but don't subscribe to the culture of women knocking down other women just for sport and some lols.[/quote]

NP. I think it’s okay to be critical of parents making their living off of sharing every single private moment of their children’s lives on the internet.[/quote]

"Critical" is rather an understatement of what GOMI did with Dooce. And the level of hypocrisy in criticism coming from the writer at GOMI is ridiculous:
* she made fun of moms making asking their readers for money to read what they wrote, but she asked her own readers for money to read what she wrote.
* she made fun of moms for editing their comments to take out the negative stuff, but she edited her blog to take out the negative comments.
* GOMI went above and beyond by reading webmail her commenters would send to one another and would terminate people's memberships if they were overly critical of her in their messages to one another.

However you feel about discussion sites in general, in this day and age where we are better informed and know that we should do better by one another, I just don't see how you can defend reading and supporting GOMI.  This straw in particular -- mocking someone mercilessly for years and then reporting on their death and thus profiting by it -- is a heavy one.

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