As Crisis Swirls, Floyd Landis Bans Comments from His Blog

As you probably know by now, American cyclist Floyd Landis is facing a weensy bit of a PR crisis. He will likely be stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title over his alleged doping. Floyd's wisely using his blog to fight back Mark Cuban-style in his own voice. However, he's making matters worse by turning off comments on this particular post (note image below). I have Trackbacked it so let's see if he at least lets these show up.

When Floyd "won" the Tour, of course, the situation was quite the opposite. He was quite happy to bask in the glory of the fans. Now he can't take the direct heat from them so he's silencing the crowd from defacing his site. While I was giving Floyd the benefit of the doubt for awhile, no more. The fact that he's not letting us react to his blog post - at least on his site - encourages me to distrust him. By the way, it's not stopping us from linking to the post.

The moral of this story for corporations or anyone blogging in good times and bad is that you can't have it both ways. If you're going to blog, open yourself to comments. And once you do so, don't put that genie back in the bottle. This is especially true when blogging in a crisis like this one where you need all the trust you can get.

Tags: floydlandis, tourdefrance, cycling