"Good for Goode" Follow Up Post

After re-reading the Chronicle's article about the Murphy-Goode Winery job, I was perhaps a little unfair to Martin in my previous post.

Perhaps it's Digg founder Kevin Rose who needs a reality check. He's quoted as saying "You can't ask the community to help you vet candidates and then just disregard what they said."

Let's read that again with emphasis added: "You can't ask the community to help you vet candidates and then just disregard what they said"

"Help" is the key word in that statement. They didn't ask the community to vet the candidates. They asked them to help. They didn't "disregard" what they said. They took it into consideration, in some cases disagreed, and made their decision.

In fact, the article says that Martin's web-celeb status actually hurt his chances. So they didn't disregard his insane number of votes at all. They just counted them against him rather than for him.

Just because they didn't agree with your advice, doesn't mean they didn't listen to it.