{"id":1769,"date":"2007-10-04T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/04\/will-the-real-dave-winer-please-stand-up\/"},"modified":"2007-10-04T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T22:34:00","slug":"will-the-real-dave-winer-please-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/04\/will-the-real-dave-winer-please-stand-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the real Dave Winer please stand up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Dave Winer thinks Techmeme has become a “cesspool,” as he puts it<\/a>. Why? He says it’s because of the Techmeme leaderboard, and how it’s encouraging people to say all kinds of things in an attempt to game the system. But I think Dave is just pissed that a certain person he doesn’t name — but whose name rhymes with Mason Balacanis<\/a> — was topping the site for much of the day. <\/p>\n

Dave can’t even bring himself to mention J-Dawg’s name, calling him an “idiot who says idiotic things to get attention,” a reference that I assume goes back to Dave’s little contretemps with JC at a conference<\/a> awhile back. The ironic thing is that by doing that, Dave himself engaged in exactly the same thing he claims to abhor — and got some nice Techmeme juice out of it to boot.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b><\/p>\n

Mike says that Dave is using tinyURL<\/a> in his post when he links to Jason, to prevent JC from getting any link juice. I guess that’s pettiness 2.0 (In a comment below, Dave denies that this was his intention). And Scott Karp has some tips for Gabe on how to prevent<\/a> people from “gaming” Techmeme to rise up the leaderboard. But Scott, that would ruin all our fun \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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So Dave Winer thinks Techmeme has become a “cesspool,” as he puts it. Why? He says it’s because of the Techmeme leaderboard, and how it’s encouraging people to say all kinds of things in an attempt to game the system. But I think Dave is just pissed that a certain person he doesn’t name — … <\/p>\n

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