[toyg]

Does anyone here remember WinerWatch? The tool Mark Pilgrim wrote, that monitored changes to blog posts by (the notoriously trollish) Dave Winer? It caused a big stir in the blogosphere in 2003, and Mark took it down very quickly after public blowback. I always thought it was pretty cool and he should have left it up.

One of the very few surviving posts on the matter: https://burningbird.net/forget-the-law-forget-the-technology...

[rafterydj]

What an interesting glimpse into the blogosphere. That post in particular is interesting, given the much larger discussions that followed it on essentially the same topic: how to decide what people can and can not say when there are those who ruin the commons. I'm thinking of Twitter/X's Community Notes feature and the many reputation mechanisms people put in place, and the subsequent griping of community politics that arise from those mechanisms...