Comments on: ‘Honeypot for Idiots’

By: dave_ny

dave_ny — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:55:45 +0000

http://recently.rainweb.net/hive/1136/

Dave strikes again.

By: McD

McD — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:25:01 +0000

Traffic? I don't get that... he'd be happy with a dozen loyal follows.

He wants people to give him links that he'd enjoy and he didn't like the ones he got. So, forget it. Move on. A nice little fine tuned meme tracker was his vision but "idiots" showed up. People with poor taste.

Now... will someone at reddit actually manually kill the page or can we use it? Links that keep the eye on "scripting"? If Dave won't... we should.

By: EyeOnWiner

EyeOnWiner — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:54:33 +0000

No kidding. Especially if stories Dave up-voted ended up in his newsfeed.

That would actually be pretty cool.

By: Wine-a-lot

Wine-a-lot — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:52:05 +0000

I concur. I'm sure it was a traffic thing. The strange this is, he really did nothing to promote it besides a single blog post. It's really quite amazing (I was going to say self-involved, but I thought I'd be gentle -- oops!), to think he could announce it and have it catch on immediately.

Another problem is that it is/was off-site. Maybe if it was integrated into his blog it would have had half a chance. Like a well-place box on the right-hand column of his site.

By: dave_ny

dave_ny — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:28:40 +0000

Wait, did he actually accidentally delete his own account? Dave Winer?

That's hilarious.