For context, whatever the background to the Mineserver story lets set that aside - make of it what you will.

What IS worth understanding is that the aftermath is the Cringely was relentlessly and endlessly hounded about this issue by people who can only be described as mentally unwell - they were so fixated, so deeply angry that this happened that they never ever left any Cringely article or post without flooding it with their deep deep anger and righteous indignation.

But "it MATTERS" all the trolls and weirdos would say as they carried their stupid grudge for decades.

And this guy here who wrote this post is just another one of those mentally unwell permanently angry people.

They're stalkers really with the level of ongoing never ending venom they had for Cringely.

I feel sorry for their ex-partners who likely also are being hounded by people never ever able to let go of their anger.

Can you imagine being so deeply enraged by the failure of a Minecraft server Kickstarter that it becomes your never ending mission to hound that person and to declare them to be the worst of the worst forever - really sad.

So if you pile on in the comments and declare Cringely to be some sort of evil person then just be aware you are being manipulated by mentally unwell trolls who want you to behave the same way they do, to amplify their decades old campaign of righteous indignation and online harassment.

Just to add to the picture, you can read here one of Cringely's final columns:

https://www.cringely.com/2026/05/21/im-writing-again/

Count up the number of comments from Jeremy Reimer - the author of this HN linked article - he cares - a lot about this.

The Kickstarter was more than 10 years ago - 2015. It raised $35,452. 10 years and the trolls maintain their nuclear level outrage.

Go read the announcement post:

https://www.cringely.com/2015/09/29/the-cringely-boys-kickst...