Keeping Karma with the drive-by fanboys and Sacred Cows 2.0

We did an analysis of the popularity of our posts since Broadstuff started with Karma points. What was interesting was not so much the most popular, but the least:

Here they are, in order of declining infamy:

-39% About Open Coffee spam on their discussion board
-29% Winding up Twitternuts re Twitterporn shock horror
-27% That Olympic Logo - clearly their PR were out on a trashfest
-25% Microsoft buying up Ad Co's in desperate attempt to keep up with You-Know-Who
-24% Questioning Joost et al's reliance on Ad funding and closed services
-23% Last .fm exiting just before life gets far tougher for them
-22% Pointing out that IPTV will be a webservice and all the current plays are mere stepping stones
-21% Digg Gaming makes Digg crap
-17% London's crap and overpriced WiFi initiatives
-16% Putting Broadstuff on Twitter

Now, we don't think the quality of writing differs hugely from the worst to best (its all incredibly erudite and witty of course...), the difference is in the subject. In general these posts have tended to prick a sacred cow early on (if you read most of them now, its fairly uncontentious stuff).

On the last one....poking fun at Twitter is still akin to heresy far worse than teasing the GreenPriests, which says a lot about priorities of the Twits - but we were very early onto Twitter as a blog - which also seemed to cause consternation - damned either way eh

What is more irritating is that the drive by fanboys who hit the -ve karma never bother to comment and give us a refutation of our point of view (so we can hold it up to the ridicule it deserves - sorry, have a conversation - of course.)

So, to each of them, a sacred cowpat on the head