I wrote a few times before about this topic and this week there was a great example that can be used to illustrate the problem.
First of all, if you are ever attacked publicly in a blog, forum, website, wiki or whatever, you must respond! You must respond in as many always as you can, as fast as you can and make sure that every single word you write reflects the facts of the situation.
Case in point, Sam Sethi and Michael Arrington spat. This is a long thing so I won't go in detail, but you can read Sam attacking Michael and Michael's response.
It's a bit clear that Sam is a problematic person (just being politically correct here). You might think that for a case like this you just ignore and let it die, after all, what's the value of a wacko saying bad things about you? No much, right? Wrong.
Most people on the Internet, when they are looking up for stuff about you, will not do background check on every person that said something about you. If you don't react to something like this, you are letting just one voice be heard. So, speak up and tell your side of the story. Just be as fact-based as possible, because everything, I mean *everything* you write on a blog post will *never* be erased from the Internet. Search Engines and Blog Search Engines will cache it and you don't have control over it.
And the right way of responding is to write your own blog post on your own blog, so nobody can remove it, and, also leave a comment on the original blog post attacking you. Odds are that comment will be deleted, but if it's not, better for you.
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