I certainly don\'t mind a website of criticism
Except this concept isn\'t supposed to be about criticism; it\'s supposed to be about comedy. That you interpret it as the former throws into sharp relief how much he fails at the latter.
As someone who was part of the group that brought GSG about (not being snarky-trust me), I can testify to the fact that despite the bad comedic timing the site is largely about criticism. Has been since day one.
The obscurities are what kill the site first. His writing style, which has not improved sadly since he started the site, is the secondary killer. The comedic timing is third.
Where Rob failed the most is the inability to take constructive criticism. People were telling him what he wanted to hear. I was the only person who told him what he needed to hear and volunteered to help saying I would take some of the writing responsibility off his hands do he could focus on building the site. Could I have done better? Who knows.
The problem is that there are a lot of people who are afraid to criticize Rob because they\'re concerned over his mental state and that he might harm himself. But sometimes you have to overlook that.
Like in the following instance. Rob hosted a wrestling-centric talker on Fridays. I did participate in the early episodes but found one of his cohosts to be quite unbearable. Things came to a head when I stated an opinion on something and this person not only dismissed me but went after my level of intelligence about things compared to theirs. I disconnected immediately after that and told Rob I was going to be damned if I was going to have my mental capacity questioned by someone who doesn\'t know me.
I never forgot it either and that was a large part of the reason why my relationship with him and a few others became fractured. But that\'s how Rob is- he\'s very naive and manipulative.
