I think the article in itself was kind of meh.
I guess I'm just easily amused, the Dr cannot have read the comment or it would been gone by now. He really can't take people saying any different than him. Yes, bad me for laughing, bad bad! :)
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At least if you read the comments on this article by him:
http://psychcentral.com/blog/discuss/70283/
The comment says: Reader beware: There is very little in this article that is accurate. In fact, there is so much wrong here that it’s possible the author deserves to be shot.
I kind of realize this isn't my first "contact" with this Dr. Quite many years ago he also ran another site that pushed for supporting a scam site. I remember his emails to me in the matter actually were quite psychopathic in their own way. He's probably just a jerk though. And not a very intelligent one. However, I wouldn't go as far as shooting him.
His article appeared to be quite good to me; concise while maintaining accuracy. I think he should do a piece on people who feel compelled to leave comments on random pop psych articles in a fit of rage, and say things such as "the author deserves to be shot," followed by a slew of totally inaccurate information. But I can't actually tell if that's just some anger-ridden woman who goes around on the Internet reading all about psychopathy to remind herself of how "evil" those people are, or just a troll. That reminds me of an interesting study on the link between online behavior and personality.
"In two online studies (total N = 1215), respondents completed personality inventories and a survey of their Internet commenting styles. Overall, strong positive associations emerged among online commenting frequency, trolling enjoyment, and troll identity, pointing to a common construct underlying the measures. Both studies revealed similar patterns of relations between trolling and the Dark Tetrad of personality: trolling correlated positively with sadism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism, using both enjoyment ratings and identity scores. Of all personality measures, sadism showed the most robust associations with trolling and, importantly, the relationship was specific to trolling behavior. Enjoyment of other online activities, such as chatting and debating, was unrelated to sadism. Thus cyber-trolling appears to be an Internet manifestation of everyday sadism."
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