Maybe 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.
Disqus 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
Re:How To Defend Your Reputation
by fredwilson on Sunday March 28, 2010 @12:50PM
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agreed. it was not my best post. i could and should have done better.
but you have captured the essence of it
thank you
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)