the horrors which where written of him

So the literary parts of the Internet are all up in arms about Jacob Silverman's Slate article condemning the "epidemic of niceness" in online book culture, and Roxane Gay's response in Salon, in which she says Silverman is totally full of shit .

Feel free to read both articles and come to your own conclusions, but I'm siding with Roxane because, let's face it, the idea that the Internet is too nice is so demonstrably wrong that it almost doesn't need a response. I mean, really. The Intern...