Flutterby has long had a daily readership of about 400 daily readers,
I figure about 1000 distinct readers per week. I always thought I
wanted a daily readership of 10,000 or so, but recently I and my
co-contributors made a few comments about the war, one of which ended
up as #2 on a popular Google search, and we've attracted some real
schmucks to the comment areas, and I've gotten more than usual
incoherent paranoid and frankly just dumb emails.

I've always laughed at Dave Winer's problems with what he terms "the
weiner boys", I figured that the flames and stuff he got on his
discussion area were mainly due to his personality, but now I'm no
longer sure that that's the key factor.

So, has anyone else out there discovered that they really wanted a
smaller, more focused readership?

Dan