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The post seems mistitled. It is not a set of instructions on how to defend your reputation. Rather, it is a single example of someone actively defending their
by rauljara 17y ago
The post seems mistitled. It is not a set of instructions on how to defend your reputation. Rather, it is a single example of someone actively defending their reputation online. That is, the only real content in the post is an example of someone attacking the author (their are no details about the attacker other than as "someone with an axe to grind"), and someone else coming to the defense of the author, implying that his reputation is so solid only people with poorly defined axes to grind would attack it.
Which is not to say anything bad about the author. I would probably try to defend my reputation if someone were attacking it, as well, but I would not have the wherewithal to be nearly so effective at it.
- TomOfTTB 17y agoIt's certainly not the clearest post the man has ever made but I think there are some lessons to be learned from the meta-content of it all. To my eyes there are two lessons here... 1. If you treat people fairly and truly have a good reputation in a community that will do more to defend your reputation than anything else. Because people will stand up for you. 2. If you are a person who has been treated fairly by someone else you should start thinking of it as your duty to defend them against attacks. Because in a world where an anonymous person can ruin someone's reputation it's up to all of us to protect each other against such attacks. Again he wasn't very clear and I have no inside information but those seemed to be the clear lessons (at least IMHO)
- fredwilson 17y agoagreed. it was not my best post. i could and should have done better. but you have captured the essence of it thank you
- gfodor 17y agoMaybe it's just because I haven't had any coffee today, but I failed to pick up on this to the depth you have, so thank you for bringing it to the surface. I think the original post should point to or incorporate this.
- messel 17y agoDisqus should pull in the reactions. Unfortunately I don't think they give the blog author tools to highlight select favorites, or to weight them by community votes
- messel 17y agonice Tom, 3 musketeers meets the social web.
- kanwisher 17y agoActually he refers back to a post a few weeks ago that does actually tell you how to defend your reputation online(albeit a bit indirectly). http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/02/own-your-online-brand.html http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/02/own-your-online-brand.html