Then, while I was in our 10 a.m. news meeting, someone posted in reply a single word, a vulgar expression for a part of a woman’s anatomy. It was there only a minute before a colleague deleted it.A few minutes later, the same guy posted the same single-word comment again. I deleted it, but noticed in the WordPress e-mail alert that his comment had come from an IP address at a local school. So I called the school. They were happy to have me forward the e-mail, though I wasn’t sure what they’d be able to do with the meager information it included.
After some detective work at the school, they located the commenter, who then resigned on the spot. Overkill much? The commenters on the post seem to be leaning more toward the "You did an asshole thing by forcing the guy out of his job" side of things, and Greenbaum seems genuinely surprised by the aggression from commenters.
(Via Edward Champion on Twitter)
