Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble, who has long boasted about his policy of not censoring comments on his blog, has decided to moderate comments.
About time.
Setting aside the legal implications of giving a wide audience to comments that often get out of hand and sometimes are just hate screeds against various targets, the personal wear-and-tear of reading through raw bile has to wear you down.
Smart move, Mr. S. I don’t have a comments policy on my blog, but as soon as I have to deal with a fraction of the crap Scoble has been enduring for years, I’ll come up with something.
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1 Zoli's Blog // Apr 15, 2006 at 9:45 pm
Re: Censoring Blog Comments
Nick Carr received an offensive comment which another reader asked him to remove. His response:“My policy is to let idiots speak freely. It makes them…
2 Torley Linden // Apr 17, 2006 at 12:16 am
I came here from Mr. Scoble’s blog… one of the things I dislike most about repetitive “raw bile” is it’s so redundant. I’ve already been there, done that–and life’s too short as it is, the happy stuff is rare and puny in proportion. So yeah, I could use more smiles.
I also gotta say:
1) that “troll” looks like something outta Where The Wild Things Are!
2) You look like you could be related to Robert Scoble!
Take care.
3 Eric Eggertson // Apr 17, 2006 at 1:14 am
Torley:
Scoble and I are actually part of a secret government plot to seed the planet with fair-haired geeks. We’re supposed to procreate and spawn even more geeks, but it’s hard to concentrate on sex when there are blog posts to write…