Reading the comments on Jason Linkins’s “How HuffPo Works” piece as well as the comments on nu-Gawker, one thing stuck out to me, and that is that people who spend seemingly their entire working day commenting on articles on the Internet are really, really self-important, and also convinced they make up the majority of people reading any given website. Hint: you suck and also there are only 10 of you.
Yep, that’s pretty much the gist of it. I mean, don’t get me wrong—I love commenting, and I enjoyed Gawker when it was commenter-friendly and whatnot—but we are not the point of the site. And no one ever told us that we were, so I’m not really sure who we think we have a right to be angry at. We don’t own the site; we don’t even pay for the site. What is it that anyone thinks Nick Denton owes them, exactly? And I won’t get started on HuffPo. Mostly because I don’t read HuffPo.
Right? See, I comment too when I’m bored or taking a break. It’s fun! But then you see people who post, “WE ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTORS TO THE SITE, HOW DARE YOU SIR, GOOD DAY!” and that’s when my internet marketer analytics freak comes out and I’m like, “You make up maybe 5% of page views, as a mass, dude.” Though I did make the mistake of clicking on Remy Stern’s Twitter feed the other day and was like, “Whoa, I get why people wanna yell at him for serious!” That’s neither here nor there though.
There are message boards out there; I think all these angry HuffPo and Gawker people should all migrate over to ILXor.com and start a war. I will not see it, which is an ideal situation, and it would be hilarious.
