More plaintive questions from a Gangplank member, after Young Martin Cizmar™ tweeted yesterday that the place was full of “hate bloggers"—and later expanded on the contention by explaining he was talking about people in "leadership positions.”

As PHXated explained at the time, we’ve had some passing experience with the group, a digital business incubator based in downtown Chandler, and have generally found the place to be a bit wholesome—anything but a nest of haters.

Various Gangplank members pressed Young Martin for details yesterday.

Below is an interesting exchange from last night.

For those not familiar with the arcana of Twitter nomenclature and orthography, the “@” name in bold is the person making the tweet; the “@” name that comes up in the tweet proper is a reference to other tweeters. When it’s at the beginning of the tweet, it generally means that the tweet is directed at that person.

For connoisseurs of Young Martin’s rhetorical dog-fighting, the following is pure catnip:

@willbradley @phxmusicdotcom I dont think you realize how many awesome people are “at” Gangplank and subsequently offended by your original tweet…

@PHXmusicdotcom @willbradley I would assume their first thought would be ‘well, he’s not talking about me, I’m an awesome person…’

@willbradley @PHXmusicdotcom really? Not “who is this guy and why is he talking smack about some of the coolest friends I know?”

@PHXmusicdotcom @willbradley I think the people I was talking about didn’t wonder too much about who I meant… I also don’t think you think I meant you.

@PHXmusicdotcom @PHXmusicdotcom I think you meant “everyone affiliated with @gangplank” when you said it. Either that, or: http://is.gd/fyTH

@willbradley @PHXmusicdotcom then you clarified that you meant leaders, which narrows it down to ~4 and is still vague and insulting to 100s of ppl.

@PHXmusicdotcom @willbradley Dude, I said “or is that just an image some members are cultivating?” in the first tweet.

@PHXmusicdotcom @willbradley I was hoping someone would tell me “no, what those people are up to is not what we’re about!” or maybe “Hellz yeah we are!”

@willbradley @PHXmusicdotcom dude if you hate @tdhurst just say so, no need to be all vague about it.

PHXated thinks that Bradley here has put his finger on something. Tyler Hurst, who tweets under the name tdhurst, is a frequent target of Cizmarian invective.

PHXated’s hunch is that Young Martin thinks Hurst has something to do with Gangplank, which he doesn’t.

@willbradley @PHXmusicdotcom I’m telling you now, I still have no idea which one of my friends (or me) you’re hating on, and I take offense.

@PHXmusicdotcom @willbradley If I wanted to say that I would have said that. I didn’t bc that’s not my point.

Here, however, Martin seems to be dismissing the Hurst theory, albeit in unconvincing fashion.

@PHXmusicdotcom @willbradley My question is whether people like that who are repping the group hardcore and inviting people to speak, are what it’s about?

Another interesting Cizmaranian undertone. PHXated, another perennial nettle in Young Martin’s journalistic sock, was recently “invited to speak” at Gangplank. Could it be that Martin, bedeviled by Hurst and PHXated, is conflating them, wholly unfairly, with Gangplank, and taking it out on the wholesome Chandlerites?

@willbradley @PHXmusicdotcom @gangplank is people going to a place and working on things together. That’s pretty much it. No hateblog required.

@PHXmusicdotcom @willbradley Well then that’s great. I’ve had some bad experiences with affiliates but keep hearing this positive stuff. So I wondered aloud

@willbradley @PHXmusicdotcom way to wonder aloud. Try hanging out at GP before you trash us. Or, after you trash us. Door’s always open.