Steve Gillmor's Commenters Revolt

That's way more than the guy deserves!

I'd never heard of him before Arrington brought him on board. He had a few pieces on TechCrunch that week....but I couldn't make it past sentence 3 in any of them. The titles don't grab you and he uses words like "thusly."

People like to read interesting stuff.

If your stuff's not readable, then it doesn't matter how interesting it is.

It's bloated writing. He tries to pass himself off as intelligent, but his rambling clearly shows this is not the case. When people use big words and obscure references, it's usually a sign they are trying to imitate intelligence.

I find myself writing like him sometimes. Sometimes you have complicated thoughts and you want to word certain things precisely and it comes out like a bad version of Dennis Miller with qualifiers on top of qualifiers, adjectives and adverbs all over the place... except most of us reread that and go 'whoooooaaa' and rewrite the whole mess.

His readers, at least the ones that comment, are the only part that is worth reading. It's actually kind of amazing how they latch onto one word or one sentence and then wrap their own views around that sentence as a way of "understanding" what Steve meant.

In the comment section quoted here you'll see several people who claim the piece made perfect sense to them and was a well written even though any rational person can see the piece is too vague to definitivly say anything.

I get what he is saying, but what I don't get is he's basically describing the blogsphere as it is right now.