Oh Dave

Looks like Dave Winer is going back to what he does best: [pissing off great heaping swaths of people.](http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/15/sudden_closure_of_weblogscom_strands_bloggers.html)  I guess it was too difficult pissing people off one at a time, like he did with good old [Frontier](http://www.userland.com/stories/storyReader%24162)  (a platform close to my heart – until version 5\). So now he’s pissing people off en masse.

From the (heavily edited) comments to Dave’s post:

I think your “move” is rather crappy. I post my complaint against your rules anyway, just to let you know you have one heck of a ridiculous way of saying good-bye to your faithful users. I don’t care if you can’t afford hosting anymore, there is such a thing as courtesy and letting folks know when you’re about to shut down and all that jazz. Way to go. You just scarred your own name and is now synonymous with bad customer service. Oh, and as far as the “don’t complain about something that’s free”, that’s like telling me not to complain because you put a free bullet in my head.

It’s obvious this person is pissed off, and is unfair in some regards: “I don’t care if you can’t afford hosting” is just cruel. But they do raise a very valid point: courtesy. A bit of warning would have been nice, Dave.