Image copyright: Viola Jen Ask any blog author about moderating comments, and I’m sure they’ll have an opinion — the time it takes, comment spam, links within comments etc. I reckon I’m one of the more strict moderators when it comes to your name appearing on my blog, and I’...

It was with some astonishment that I read the following comment from the chair of the UK’s National Union of Journalists (NUJ) professional training committee, Chris Wheal, on Adam Tinworth’s blog: “The NUJ fails to maintain standards in blogs because bloggers themselves rejoice in...

"Unfortunately, this has not happened here." Lawprof Jack Balkin nixes comments. Though his co-bloggers can still turn comments on for their individual posts, he's had it with trolls and name-calling: There is very rarely any serious analysis; mostly there is point scoring and vitriol. Many regular ...

At Tennessee News Platoon, in response to a posting of Tennessee House Rep. Susan Lynn’s response to the release of a GOP House Caucus internal memo, a commenter identifying himself as Elmer Gantry tries to either besmirch Lynn’s character or redeem Williams’s character or both. Yo...

Oh, only if every day was Derlurking Day. *sigh* No, seriously, that was fun. I had no idea that you guys (the 40 some of you that actually commented) were even out there. What a pleasant surprise! (And for the record, I think bloggers that don’t return the favor on such a day by commenting/em...

Just in case anyone out there was worried that 2009 might not contain quite as many idiots as 2008 did, I present the evidence to the contrary, courtesy of a comment someone  tried to post on the The Fashion Police yesterday: “ALL THOSE DRESSES SUCK AZZ WITH DOO DOO IN THE MIDDLE!!WHO IN THE...

If your blog gets no comments, or only a few from time to time, I know how that feels. Go back a little while to my January 2006 blog archives, and look at all those zeroes. Now, after reading a few of the posts, I can see why. I know what I was doing wrong. But it doesn’t help at the time. Ze...

We – as human beings – live and grow mentally because of the conversations we have. Without that constant flow of ideas and mental stimulation we would never strive to grow and improve. If we only talk to ourselves within our own minds we run the very real risk of stagnating and being left behin...

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What is Captcha? It's that obnoxious little box you see with the hard-to-decipher letters and numbers you have to type to prove you are a real human. Take that fourth character in the captcha box you see here: Is it an el?  i?  t?   The last time I left a comment on a blog that used Captcha, the ...