A little friendly competition is healthy, after all it is in our human nature to compete. In fact, competition is what drives us to be better, to look at things differently and make them better, in short, competition is good. There are rules to every competition, whether documented, unspoken or just understood. Trouble rears it’s ugly head when people take off the gloves, start breaking the rules and doing things their own way to either get ahead or put their competition down. Now that does not seem cool, does it?

In the event that you are not an avid Crunch head (just coined that term, kind of like it, reminds me of dead head, but completely different) um, I mean read TechCrunch on a regular basis, we at Mixx (let me just say how awesome it feels to say we at Mixx) had the pleasure of a nice write up by Mr. Arrington over the holiday weekend. Of course all the naysayers were out in full effect with their negative comments, but there were a lot of great comments as well, and to all of you I say thanks. There seems to be a good amount of people that are frustrated with the current social news sites for whatever reasons, and Mixx provides them an alternative, and we welcome anyone who leaves those sites or anyone who comes from where ever, we welcome you all. We recognize that all the other social news sites are our competition, and because of that we strive to get better each day, to listen to our users responses and needs and try to fulfill them however possible. This is all within the rules of engagement, and we will stick to it.

The game becomes unfair when your competition does something that is against the spirit of competition. That happened to us today, there was an article surfaced on how to administer a DDOS attack on us, and it was even being voted up. That is not cool in any way, shape or form. The game takes a bad turn with these kinds of actions, but it only stays that way if we or anyone in this situation follows suit. It is safe to say that we will steer things back on course from our side and I just hope that our competition does the same.