Crazy Uncle Dave (Re)Invents Comments

August 23rd, 2010, by The Angry Drunk

Cross posted from Dave Winer’s Crazy Train…

So, let’s get this straight. Uncle Dave doesn’t like the rough-and-tumble nature of blog com­men­tary (a rea­son­able posi­tion to take, I hate you pricks too), but he’s too nar­cis­sis­tic do with­out the fawn­ing admi­ra­tion of strangers. What’s a New Media Douchebag to do? Well, if you’re Dave Winer, you come up with…this. Please, for the love of fuck, some­one imple­ment this so I can prop­erly laugh at it.

On another note, this bit amused and enraged me:

I’m almost 100 per­cent sure that script​ing​.com was the first blog to have com­ments. And I’m equally sure that it was the first to have its com­ments flame out. The flame­out was a good thing, although it didn’t feel like it at the time, because it cre­ated the first wave of blogs. And when their com­ments flamed out, there were sub­se­quent waves of new blogs.

Dave, you arro­gant fuck, peo­ple have been com­ment­ing on other people’s writ­ing since some Kraut ass­hole scrib­bled “Erster Beitrag” under Martin Luther’s Theses. Can there be any­thing on the intar­tubes that you won’t claim to have invented.

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  • tim

    “and in a sim­i­lar way I feel Twitter is not a con­ver­sa­tional medium. it is even more inap­pro­pri­ate to try to con­verse there because of the 140-character limit.”

    Which is obvi­ously why his twit­ter feed (before today) is filled with both directed replies and shouting-into-the-crowd replies like this gem: “You guys who are reject­ing my com­ment pro­posal with­out think­ing about it are very poor cre­ative thinkers. And you don’t under­stand the web.” (http://​twit​ter​.com/​d​a​v​e​w​i​n​e​r​/​s​t​a​t​u​s​/​2​1​8​5​0​2​3​6​116)

  • Anonymous

    “I’m almost 100 per­cent sure”

    So… not actu­ally 100 per­cent, then? More like 99%? 98%?

  • Anonymous

    24h passed, but com­ment­ing remains closed.

  • Anonymous

    Erster Beitrag.

    THAT’S fuck­ing funny.

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    Any errors in trans­la­tion I lay directly at the feet of Google Translate.

  • Putemailhere

    Dave is pretty fair when it comes to com­ments, as long as the com­ment either 1. kisses dave’s ass or 2. agrees with dave’s opinion.

  • bradisrj

    If last names still func­tioned to describe one’s pro­fes­sion, char­ac­ter or char­ac­ter­is­tics — Dave is already there (minus the “h”).….… ; — )

  • Morven

    I’ve long thought there should be a peti­tion to get Dave a name change to fix his spelling.