An exchange between Cameron Slater and Belt reveals conflict at Whale Oil.

Links and quotes from Google cache show an exchange on Whale Oil’s Back Chat on 19 November.

Cam Slater: Do want to be fired?

Pete: You can try. But it isn’t spelled fired. Its spelled buy-out.

Cam Slater: Oh you are going to buy me out? Sure, you’ve got all my money anyway. You’ve already wrecked the blog, pushed away all the commenters and reduced the traffic to a shadow of what it was. The experiment is coming to an end.

Pete: Cam, I know its been a rough day. But can we take this off-line please?

Slater: You already did that this morning, remember?