So my latest article was Dugg over 1800 times.
While this sounds awesome, the comments are absolutely worthless.
The users didn’t even call me names or insinuate that I sleep with rotting flesh.
In fact, they talk about everything I do not mention in the article wholly ignoring the substance of the actual piece.
Fact: I never once discuss broadband. So guess what they spend all of their time talking about?
Fact: I never mention broadband prices. Yet, the title of the Digg post suggests other wise.
Fact: I don’t compare ISPs or international policies. That doesn’t stop people from hearsay/conjecture.
Fact: I never mention Google or AT&T. Yet they are mentioned throughout the 350 comments.
Probably the funniest fact is that I never mention everyones favorite company, Google. I don’t even talk about the potential bidders in the upcoming 700 mhz auction. This absence was intentionally made, yet someone logged in and added the words “broadband” and “google” in the user-contributed tags on the actual article.
Perhaps the most disappointing thing for me, aside from not receiving any substantive critiques, is how neither of my previous articles on this subject matter were discussed or dugg. Both of them were arguably more interesting.
In fact, last week I published “Against a National Broadband Policy.” If that doesn’t deserved to be slimmed, what does?
The reason I mention this is because as an author/observer, I would like my mistakes corrected — I don’t think I’m perfect (unless it involves karaoke to Bon Jovi songs).
Perhaps next time I’ll include scantily clad images of Scarlett Johansson.
Note: two of my older stories were dugg and have at least a couple of insightful comments (1 2).