"Had it coming"? You serious? This deal blog's main demographic is frum (male - young) Jews, which include many who have never been taught English in school. they are all very proud of the deals they find on dans deals and they all sign up for credit cards using the links in the posts.
The comment that we are discussing here - the one where dan poked fun at the comments little spelling mistake - he was asking about which cards to signup for! (I will not post here what the commission rates are on the cc signups, but I will tell you that they are very decent. ) This is a potential customer who can bring in a few hundred dollars to the site owner just by signing up for a few credit cards. How would this potential customer feel if "the great dan" was making fun of him behind closed doors?
dan can make fun of whomever he wants, and so can I, but not in a public place where said potential customer has access to reading how he was ridiculed by the site owner.
This is not musar, this is customer service 101.
Did you even bother reading the comment?! Apparently not. I will record it here for posterity:
i just got a new gold amex card from canada could you please DAN tell me in which program i shall in roll
For starters,
nowhere is he looking to give Dan any business. He
already has a card, and not necessarily from one of Dan's links, either. He was
not, as you say, "asking about which cards to signup for".
Second of all, even if he had gotten the word "enroll" right (not to mention the utter lack of anything resembling proper grammar, or even punctuation), it's
still an idiotic comment. Which "program"?! If I were Dan, I would have answered something like "Try WIC. Or HUD. Or maybe Section 8 is taking applications..."
Now, I understand that some newbies may not know how to express things properly, or use the wrong technical term... but this is one of those comments that - even after sitting and scratching my head for a while - I
still can't decipher what the heck he wants. What "programs" is he choosing from? FF programs? Card benefit programs (GE, car rental insurance, etc.)? Something else?
And for that... that comment belongs in this thread.
Now, as for the response it got... anybody who has such a thin skin that he can't take a joke about different kinds of rolls, shouldn't be in this game. He'll never survive his first call with recon.
Oh, and one final point... it wasn't just "behind closed doors". Dan also
posted that line about the rolls in the comments on that post in response to harold.