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MrBabyMan

Posted by MrPowers under Internet, People

One of the best things to ever happen to Digg was the hard work & contribution from Andrew Sorcini (a.k.a. MrBabyMan). He consistently submits wonderful content to Digg and has a real passion for the site. He does a weekly podcast called The Drill Down, about some of the stories that appear on Digg (though the podcast isn’t strictly about Digg) and has even visited the Digg offices and met the staff. I myself had the pleasure of speaking with him on Skype in the “after chat” of The Drill Down, and found him to be a very intelligent and wonderful human being. Soooo….. can we just leave it at that? Apparently not!

Most people on Digg will likely be aware by now of who MrBabyMan is and the recent non sense thats been going on. Suffice to say a recent submission (from the girlfriend of a Digg employee no less) was directed at Andy and was abusive. Some say this was a parody submission, some said who cares? I think when one constantly sees “Fuck you MrBabyMan” in an overwhelming amount of comments on one website, they cannot help but care. Why say this to somebody? Ok yeah…. its only a website, but MrBabyMan is more than just an avatar or an account on a website. He is actually just somebody who really loves and cares about Digg. The reason for the popularity and success of social media (amongst many other things) is because of people just like him! So why hate him and abuse him? When you look at the profiles of the people who post the horrible comments about him and hate on him….. these people generally haven’t been on Digg very long, have no submissions, and have only made comments about Andy and his submissions. I would guess that some of these are dummy accounts but I can’t be too sure of that. Its pretty amazing that people can go out of their way to abuse somebody who really doesn’t deserve it.

After seeing this video I know that Andy is just your average kinda guy…. just like the rest of us!