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I am thinking about doing a small study of Matt Cutts’ Blog. There seems to be a point in every one of his controversial popular posts where Matt just bows out of the conversation and it devolves into bickering, unsubstantiated claims, personal attacks, and even more confusion than before the post was made. Perhaps it’s just as simple as Matt has said all he wants to say on the matter as he doesn’t throw these things out there for debate but rather information. On the other hand, maybe he just gets sick of the inane conversation and moves on to bigger and better things. In his position of leadership at Google I’m sure decisions are made daily and acted upon without endless debate, so his blog may reflect that aspect of his style. Either way I’d suggest he invest in a free wordpress plug-in that automatically closes comments after a certain time period, or just manually shuts them down when he’s no longer interested in responding. There are many examples on what started out as a good discussion decayed into a mess that only leads to more confusion. I’d like to use his blog as a point of reference for many things but often times the actual post is so polluted with unmoderated gibbish that sending someone there to read would only open up a whole new set of issues.

Just take a look at this quagmire that used to be an insightful and intelligent conversation. Perhaps there is some correlations to be drawn between the post date, Matt’s last comment, and the point when conversation has turned just plain silly. If I could put together such a relationship there may be a way to modify the CuttletBlock script to not only block regular troublemakers and lemmings but also just block out the impending noise.

Then again it’s his site and he’s free to do with as he pleases, and I’m only a reader paying nothing to view it. Maybe there is a lesson in there somewhere for people who would like to debate the moral grounds of Google’s paid link policy. Google is just a website after all, and how they choose to run it is their business.

On second thought, Matt, you can operate your site as you see fit.

Never mind.

(Intentional 70’s SNL reference just for us old geezers)