"It's hard to separate the product from the creator. We can demand a higher standard of creators, but one of the consequences will be fewer creations."
I don't understand your point here. I can quite easily imagine a RapGenius like service being created by someone who's not an utter dickbag. In other words, I fail to see anything inherent to RapGenius which requires douchbaggery of its creator. Are you suggesting that there is?
> I can quite easily imagine a RapGenius like service being created by someone
I can imagine quite a few things too, but reality has a different take on things. At the end of the day, he did ... and nobody else stepped up.
Is he immature? Yeah. Rather than firing such individuals, I think a bit of social pressure can make them behave like civilized people. Firing them is a bit overkill.
I don't want to live in a society were people lose their livelihood over saying something stupid, even if saying intelligent things is part of their job description.
Frankly, if I had to guess, I think they wanted him gone and used this as an excuse to get rid of him.
I don't think you got what I was saying. The post I was referring to claimed that it is difficult to separate RapGenius from it's douchy creator. My point was simply that I don't think it is at all difficult. I.e. it's quite easy to imagine a RapGenius like service without a douche as creator. The fact that RapGenius was in fact created by a douche doesn't negate my point that a douche was not a necessary condition for the creation of RapGenius — unless you take a sample size of 1 as meaningful.
I don't understand your point here. I can quite easily imagine a RapGenius like service being created by someone who's not an utter dickbag. In other words, I fail to see anything inherent to RapGenius which requires douchbaggery of its creator. Are you suggesting that there is?