There was a glorious time when people celebrate the invention of blogs and open discussion about almost every topic on the Internet.

It was good when everyone was contributing positive, critical or constructive comments. But today, there is a new danger and it’s invading the blogs.

A new breed of bloggers and commentaries empowered by “Sour Grapes”. Meaning people who just wish to inflict negative comments regardless to whether the argument is valid or morally right thing to do. They just love to flame. The question is, where do these sour grapes come from and why?

If you read Wikipedia, this is what it means:

Sour grapes is an expression originating from the Aesop Fable The Fox and the Grapes, meaning to deny desire for something one cannot attain.

Here is a similar definition from another site:

In a famous fable by Aesop, a fox declared that he didn’t care that he
could not reach an attractive bunch of grapes because he imagined they
were probably sour anyway. You express sour grapes when you put down
something you can’t get: “winning the lottery is just a big headache
anyway.” The phrase is misused in all sorts of ways by people who don’t
know the original story and imagine it means something more general like
“bitterness” or “resentment.”

There are many other reasons and here are some:

  • The person is a “downer” and naturally likes to put people down
  • The person is having a bad hair day (or maybe on just every single day)
  • The person is negative conductor and doesn’t understand what’s positive
  • The person is just jealous (very jealous it may seems)
  • The person is incapable of empathy and lack empathy from others

Whatever the reasons are, the Sour Grapes are invading the blogs.