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I remember way back in the early 2000s when I was exploring my politics. After 9/11, I wanted to know how that might happen and realized years of disinterest left me unprepared to discuss it. Politics. Some might argue I still am. But I tried to learn. I started with the Founding documents and kept …
Let me begin by saying this was not easy. There were many excellent comments on a wide range of topics across nearly every piece of content we published last week. But as they say in the Movie Highlander. There can be only one.
As we stumble into the year of our lord, Two Thousand Twenty-Four, I feel compelled to give thanks to commenters. Yes, the people who are not just fans of our authors but feel the uncontrollable urge to add their input and encourage debate.
You can thank someone acting trollish. After warning about the behavior, I had to delete comments and accounts. Since the troll decided to rotate through guest accounts, I’ve turned off that privilege. To re-acquaint people with our few rules: As LaShawn Barber says, “On this blog, your speech is a privilege. On your blog, your speech is …
Maintenance: Guest Disqus Comments Have Been Turned Off – For Now Read More »
This is getting well past Stupid. For a few months now, Commenters on our posts have been complaining that WE (or me) have been moderating their comments left on various posts that we put up. These fall into two categories:
The media does this thing where they get some intern to scour your internet history for two words placed in the wrong order. Proof you are a [bigot, racist, xenophobe, etc.] which then becomes breaking news. The media can now expect similar treatment.
The alternative title was “Concord Monitor: taking cues from Twitter, set up their own comment jail?” The Concord Monitor on Friday afternoon suspended the commenting section on all articles following continued abuses. The Monitor will explore alternatives that facilitate civil dialogue and allow a better ability to ban fake accounts. Not just mine – everyone! …
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If you comment on GraniteGrok.com, you use Disqus. Well, they’ve announced a change to the default viewing of replies to upper-level comments. When a comment has a lot of responses, Disqus will roll them up and provide a ‘read more replies link’ under the top level comment.
At “Sen. Rand Paul: My filibuster was just the beginning,” he describes the filibuster and why he did it. As usual, the comments shed as much light as the column itself, the number of which has just gone over 3,000 and is steadily climbing. They are fascinating (especially in view of the fact that so many are unconcerned …
Hot Air does this every year, so I figured I’d give it a shot. It is a compilation of the posts that got the most comments in 2012. That’s right, this is comment based. And I can tell you, since I have a few posts on this list, that how well you write, or how …
