I Am Deleting the Blog
I&#x27;m sorry Scott has decided to shut down his blog. He posted many interesting things over the years, and the community of commenters that clustered in the blog&#x27;s open threads was usually a joy to deal with. I was part of that for years. I&#x27;m sorry to see it go.<p>That said, this decision to shut down the blog looks like an overreaction to me. Scott seems to think that he should be able to be both a prominent online pundit, on the one hand, and completely anonymous, on the other. That just isn&#x27;t realistic. If you&#x27;re someone who matters, people are going to want to know who you are. And there are people who make it their business to uncover such information.<p>A part of being famous is a certain level of unwelcome attention. It&#x27;s not just the good and kind that pay attention to you. It&#x27;s the weird and threatening too. This should not be news to anybody. It seems to me Scott got his first brush with real fame (in the form of an article by a top newspaper), and discovered that even a modest helping of it was was more than he was willing to deal with.<p>Goodbye SSC. It was good while it lasted.