But will they ever CLEAN the back patio?

But thanks, this is a very constructive response, for the most part. Though I don’t think we have as many detractors as you think we do, or they say nice things to our faces and mean things when they’re hiding in their homes. We all know how notoriously negative internet commenters are. I understand that you might not want to spend your time thoughtfully critiquing every post we put up, but I have a hard time understanding why you’d bother to continually post things like “You guys are so sad.” I don’t think you can see that as helpful, so your righteous quest loses its steam most of the time and it seems more like you’re just coming here to blow off said steam. (mixing metaphors!!) Your assumptions about why we post what we do is often wrong, though, but you don’t seem very interested in that. You could always start a better alternative, it’s free, and we’d link to it, like with Cranky Old Mission Guy. I agree with your general thoughts about what we could do more of. It’s hard to find time to do the more substantive stories that I’d like to put up here.

Anyway, I feel like in general shitting all over what people are putting out there, rather than suggesting something better or just clicking away, is a bummer way to spend your time. I appreciate the thoughtful criticism, but the consistent negativity is contagious (I think because of how easy it is to get away with) and makes it more difficult to have thoughtful discussions here from time to time, which discourages that effort. I’m not saying we can’t take it, or don’t sometimes deserve it, just that it can be a drag without encouraging us to do what we do any better.

Thanks for taking the time to give me a better idea of where you’re coming from.

Changing my moniker isn’t to “avoid accountability.” I’m pretty sure it’s clear it’s me most of the time.

Give us less consumerism and more of anything else and we’ll probably be more appreciative. Go back a few years and read the stuff you used to post. It’s a lot better compared to constantly hyping the same set of over-priced restaurants and bars.

For what it’s worth, you and Vic Wong probably post the best stuff. I would consider myself to be rude, insensitive, overly blunt before hypocritical, but whatever you think is fine. The standards, however, are hardly bizarre. More culture and less consumerism. Instead of cozying up to a couple business owners and hyping them ad naseum, take us to new and interesting places with new and interesting people. Spotlighting some of the NGO work you do was a good move in that direction. The Mission has a lot more to do with that sort of thing than it does with whatever over-priced restaurant just opened. If you do more of the former (community based shit) and less of the latter (hyping expensive food) you’ll find that people get less annoyed when you do the hyping and you’ll probably be providing better content and a better service to the community you’re named after. It’s also striking that most of the posts that aren’t based on food or fashion are about crime. Sort of gives a skewed impression of the neighborhood, no? There’s all sorts of ways we could critique that combo, right? I’m sure you can think of a few, so I won’t lecture you.

I can go read other blogs, and sometimes my feedback is not constructive, but it also isn’t simply random or just trolling. This space could be better and it purports to represent a vibrant part of SF that many of us know and love. If it was “Allan’s food blog” I doubt you’d attract the same level of criticism (and would likely have fewer readers). Because it isn’t, because it’s named MissionMission and because the content here is really skewed, you’ll have commenters like me (and we know I’m not the only one) giving y’all a hard time about it.

PS. The “are you a spammer bro” question is silly because of the inclusion of the word “bro”. Consider deleting that silly, silly term, Mission Mission.

Also amazed how unaware of your own hypocrisy you are, still spending so much time here trying to hold us accountable to your bizarre standards, while continually changing your name to avoid accountability.

“Truth”.